Brazil will generate 1.1 million new jobs in 2009 and about 2 million in 2010, Labor Minister Carlos Lupi said on Thursday. Lupi said that the estimates are the same with that of last year, when the effects of international financial crisis were severe. He said the Brazilian economy has already recovered from the crisis, attributing to anti-crisis measures carried out by the government, and that it would register its best year in 2010. The Labor Ministry's latest National Registry of Employment and Unemployment report said that 934,000 formal jobs were generated in Brazil during the first nine months of 2009, and 232,000 in September. Hirings were expected to increase in the upcoming months, because more temporary jobs would be offered for the upcoming Christmas season, officials said. The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics said earlier in the day that the country's current unemployment rate is at 7.7 percent, the lowest in 2009. Lupi also commented on Brazil's workweek, saying that he would be in favor of reducing the workweek to 40 hours, which might lead to more job spots, more social justice and an increase of companies' productivity. 