Staffline Group Plc : ONS Labour Market Statistics Released
January 22, 2014 at 06:52 pm IST
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The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has released the Labour Market Statistics, January 2014 report, which shows the data for September to November 2013.
The report's key findings show that:
The percentage of people aged from 16 to 64 who were in work (the employment rate) was 72.1%. The employment rate is up 0.5 percentage points from June to August 2013 and up 0.7 from a year earlier. There were 30.15 million people in employment aged 16 and over, up 280,000 from June to August 2013 and up 450,000 from a year earlier.
The percentage of the economically active population aged 16 and over who were unemployed (the unemployment rate) was 7.1%. The unemployment rate is down 0.5 percentage points from June to August 2013 and down 0.6 from a year earlier. There were 2.32 million unemployed people aged 16 and over, down 167,000 from June to August 2013 and down 172,000 from a year earlier.
The percentage of people aged from 16 to 64 who were economically inactive (the economic inactivity rate) was 22.2%. The inactivity rate is down 0.1 percentage points from June to August 2013 and down 0.2 percentage points from a year earlier. There were 8.93 million economically inactive people aged from 16 to 64, down 22,000 from June to August 2013 and down 75,000 from a year earlier.
Total pay and regular pay both rose by 0.9% compared with September to November 2012.
Visit the ONS website for the full Labour Market Statistics, January 2014 report.
Staffline Group plc is a United Kingdom-based recruitment and training company. The Company is engaged in the provision of recruitment and outsourced human resource services to industry and the provision of skills-based employability training and support. It has three divisions: Recruitment GB, Recruitment Ireland and PeoplePlus Division. Recruitment GB division provides flexible blue-collar workers, supplying c.28,000 staff per day on average from around 400 sites. Recruitment Ireland division provides end to end solutions, operating across twenty industries, ten branch locations and ten onsite customer locations, supplying c.4,000 staff per day on average, and offering recruitment process outsourcing, managed service provision, temporary and permanent solutions across the island of Ireland. PeoplePlus Division provides adult skills and training in the United Kingdom, delivering adult education, prison education and skills-based employability programs across the country.
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