The footwear producer sector created 2.7 thousand jobs in September 2019, closing three consecutive periods of growth. The data disclosed by the Ministry of Labor and Employment (MTE) demonstrates a major evolution in the balance of admissions less the shutdowns compared with the same month last year, which closed in 681 new filled vacancies. In the quarter accumulated, between July and September, the result is even better. In those three months, the employment balance was positive at 3.9 thousand jobs while, in the same period of 2018, the balance was negative at 2.6 thousand. The expectation is that by December the production of footwear grows 3%, and this increase stimulates the generation of employment, as the numbers of the last quarter show. The perspective of the transformation industry, which includes all but civil construction and agribusiness, is 0.7% drop in production, which demonstrates that the footwear sector has stood out against other segments. Currently, considering the closure of September, the footwear industry employs 280,6 thousand people, being the Rio Grande do Sul state with more employees in the sector, about 90 thousand. Source: Abicaladas