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Latest Labour Market Overview
The latest ONS Labour Market Overview reported:
- 3.8% or 1.3 million people were unemployed; 21.9% have been unemployed for more than 12 months and 0.1% increase on previous quarter
- The employment rate increased slightly to 76%
- Although reduced from last quarter, economic inactivity is still 348,000 higher than pre-pandemic levels at a total of 8.71 million people.
- A record 592,000 people are classified as long-term sick but want to have a job
- Vacancies fell again to 1.05 million, the 11th consecutive quarterly fall. The number of unemployed people per vacancy was 1.2
- Record level of payrolled employees at 30 million, up 460,000 over the 12-month period and up slightly on the last quarter
- Growth in total pay was 6.5% and regular pay was 7.2% although they fell in real terms by 2% and 1.3% respectively
- 5.97 million people were claiming Universal Credit, down 80,800 from previous month, of which 1.42 million were searching for wor
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