Germany's manufacturing employment increased in May, provisional results from Destatis showed Friday.

Manufacturing employment increased 0.9 percent or about 49,000 in May from the prior year. Nearly 5.4 million people worked in local units of manufacturing.

The number of hours worked climbed 3.4 percent in May from a year earlier to 653 million. The earnings totaled EUR 23.9 billion, which was down by 0.2 percent from prior year.