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Jan 18, 2022, 9 tweets

Headline indicators for the UK labour market for September to November 2021 show that

▪️employment was 75.5%
▪️unemployment was 4.1%
▪️economic inactivity was 21.3%

ons.gov.uk/employmentandl…

Commenting on today’s labour market data, ONS director of economic statistics Darren Morgan said:

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The number of employees on payroll continued to grow strongly in December 2021, and is now over 400,000 above the pre-pandemic level ons.gov.uk/employmentandl…

Weekly hours worked fell 2.6 million on the previous quarter, to 1.02 billion hours in September to November 2021, the first drop since the latest relaxation of #COVID19 regulations ons.gov.uk/employmentandl…

After taking inflation into account, average pay saw annual growth of 0.4% including bonuses in September to November 2021, while excluding bonuses it was flat ons.gov.uk/employmentandl…

There were an average of 1.247 million job vacancies across October to December 2021, up from 1.119 million the previous three months ons.gov.uk/employmentandl…

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