LONDON, Aug 17 ― The number of employees on British company payrolls rose by 182,000 in July from June, moving closer to their pre-pandemic level as the economy recovers from its coronavirus lockdowns, tax data showed today. The Office for National Statistics said 28.9 million people were now on...
LONDON, Aug 17 ― The number of employees on British company payrolls rose by 182,000 in July from June, moving closer to their pre-pandemic level as the economy recovers from its coronavirus lockdowns, tax data showed today.
The headline unemployment rate for the three months to June fell to 4.7 per cent. Economists polled by Reuters had mostly expected the unemployment rate to hold at 4.8 per cent.
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