{"id":6580,"date":"2019-01-22T10:15:01","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T10:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/uk-employment-total-hits-record-high\/"},"modified":"2019-01-22T10:15:01","modified_gmt":"2019-01-22T10:15:01","slug":"uk-employment-total-hits-record-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/uk-employment-total-hits-record-high\/","title":{"rendered":"UK employment total hits record high"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div property=\"articleBody\">\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption full-width lead\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"js-image-replace\" alt=\"Shop worker serving customers\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/1855\/production\/_105292260_shopsgetty.jpg\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\"\/><span class=\"off-screen\">Image copyright<\/span><br \/>\n                 <span class=\"story-image-copyright\">Getty Images<\/span><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">The number of people in work in the UK has reached a record high of 32.54 million, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ons.gov.uk\/employmentandlabourmarket\/peopleinwork\/employmentandemployeetypes\/bulletins\/uklabourmarket\/january2019\" class=\"story-body__link-external\">latest figures from the Office of National Statistics show.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Unemployment was flat, with a small increase of 8,000 between September and November for a total of 1.37 million.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The share of the population in work is the highest on record,&#8221; said David Freeman, ONS head of labour market.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The share of the workforce looking for work and unable to find it remains at its lowest for over 40 years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Average earnings excluding bonuses increased by 3.3% in the year to November, as wage rises continued to outpace inflation.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption full-width\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The unemployment total is 68,000 lower than a year ago with the jobless rate 0.2% down on this time in 2018 and the number of job vacancies at their joint highest level since 2001.<\/p>\n<p>The increase in both unemployment and employment is explained by the UK&#8217;s rising population, and fewer people classed as economically inactive, which includes those on long-term sick leave, students, and people who have given up looking for a job.<\/p>\n<p>The number of economically inactive people fell by 100,000 to 8.6 million, a rate of 21%, which is the lowest on record.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-46958560\">Source<\/a> by <a href=\"\">[author_name]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright Getty Images The number of people in work in the UK has reached a record high of 32.54 million, latest figures from the Office of National Statistics show. Unemployment was flat, with a small increase of 8,000 between September and November for a total of 1.37 million. &#8220;The share of the population in &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}