Economic security

31% of Young Cuban Workers Employed in Private Sector

Thirty-one percent of the young people employed in Cuba, more than 1.5 million people, worked in the private sector and the rest were in jobs in the state-run sector at the close of 2014, according to official figures published Sunday by local media.

The head of employment in the Labor and Social Security Ministry, or MTSS, Jesus Otamendiz, said in an interview published in the Juventud Rebelde newspaper that “there are a considerable number of young people in the new forms of management,” as the autonomous or private sector is called on the communist island.