UK employment still at record high last month, but unemployment rate ticks up 0.1% to 3.9% - still v low though... ons.gov.uk/employmentandl…
Earnings growth up - highest growth in inflation-adjusted terms for just under 4 years, in cash terms for over a decade...
Vacancies seem definitively to have peaked though - interesting leading indicator
First time the headline unemployment rate has gone up since late 2017... - still low, but government will hope it is a blip rather than the “turn”
ONS also say this on employment rate: “The increase in the employment rate for women in recent years is partly because of changes to the State Pension age for women, resulting in fewer women retiring between the ages of 60 and 65 years.”
People on Zero Hours contracts are just below their record level - 896,000 - on the way back up again having dipped in 2017 - 115,000 up on year
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