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Employment Rate

This coverage analyses the UK employment rate and its impact on the retail industry, with reporting tailored to retailers, brand managers, business executives, and professionals overseeing workforce planning and operations. It examines employment and unemployment trends, labour market dynamics, and economic inactivity, offering insight into how these factors shape consumer behaviour, staffing strategies, and overall retail performance.

Employment Rate

This coverage analyses the UK employment rate and its impact on the retail industry, with reporting tailored to retailers, brand managers, business executives, and professionals overseeing workforce planning and operations. It examines employment and unemployment trends, labour market dynamics, and economic inactivity, offering insight into how these factors shape consumer behaviour, staffing strategies, and overall retail performance.

UK unemployment remains at five-year high

Before last month, this level had not been recorded since the three months to January 2021

Number of retail job vacancies lower than pre-pandemic, ONS finds

The number of job vacancies in the wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and…

Wage growth starts to outpace rate of inflation

Pay growth has caught up with the rate of inflation for the first time in nearly two years,…

Unemployment rises to 3.9%

The unemployment rate for January to March 2023 increased by 0.1 percentage points during…

Unemployment rate rises to 3.6%

The unemployment rate for July to September 2022 increased by 0.2% on the quarter to 3.6,…

Unemployment falls to lowest level since 1974

Unemployment has fallen to its lowest level since 1974, currently sitting at 3.6% for the…

UK unemployment rate hits almost 50-year low

Employment continues to rise

The UK shows ‘continuing’ recovery in the labour market, with employment continuing to rise,…

Unemployment falls to 4.7% as job vacancies hit record high

UK unemployment fell to 4.7% for the quarter to 30 June 2021, a drop of 0.2% when compared…

Unemployment rises 5% to 1.7m

The UK unemployment rate rose by 5% in the three months to November with over 1.7 million…