Employment Figures: British Workers Down 120,000, Foreign Nationals in Work Up 233,000
by Virginia Hale The latest release of Office for National Statistics (ONS) data shows wages grew faster than inflation, but many new jobs over the past year had gone to immigrants to the UK. The ONS figures show the number of adults in work from October to December 2016 reached almost 32 million, an increase of 300,000 compared with the same period a year before. The total number of people claiming unemployment was recorded as 1.6 million. Though the number of people registered as unemployed plunged by 7,000 during the period, this wasn’t enough to change the headline percentage figure,...
by Virginia Hale The latest release of Office for National Statistics (ONS) data shows wages grew faster than inflation, but many new jobs over the past year had gone to immigrants to the UK. The ONS figures show the number...
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