Unemployment has risen again
Unemployment increased more than 10pc across Norfolk, Waveney and Fenland this quarter according to the latest claimant figures out today.
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
10:04 AM
Unemployment increased more than 10pc across Norfolk, Waveney and Fenland this quarter according to the latest claimant figures out today.
Unemployment increased more than 10pc across Norfolk, Waveney and Fenland this quarter according to the latest claimant figures out today.
Nationally the UK’s unemployment rate jumped by 48,000 in the quarter to December to 2.67m, a jobless rate of 8.4pc, the worst figure since the end of 1995.
The claimant count in Norfolk, Waveney and Fenland rose from 22,227 in October 2011 to 24,552 last month.
The hardest hit council was Great Yarmouth which saw a 23pc increase over the period from 3,666 to 4,117 claimants. It had increased by 223 since December.
Nationally, the number of people claiming Jobseeker’s Allowance rose by 6,900 in January to 1.6m, the 11th consecutive monthly increase.
The number of women claiming the allowance increased by 1,500 last month to 531,700, the highest figure since the summer of 1995.
A record number of people are working part-time because they cannot find full-time jobs - up by 83,000 over the latest quarter to 1.35 million.
Employment increased by 60,000 to 29 million, mainly due to a rise of 90,000 in the number of part-time employees to 6.6 million.
Other data from the Office for National Statistics showed a 22,000 increase in youth unemployment to 1.04 million, which includes 307,000 in full-time education who were looking for work.
The 48,000 increase in unemployment was the smallest quarterly rise since last summer.
Economic inactivity, which includes students, long-term sick, people who have retired early or those who have given up looking for work, fell by 78,000 to 9.29 million, 23% of the working age population.
Average pay increased by 2% in the year to December, unchanged from the previous month, although in the public sector it fell by 0.2% to 1.7%, the lowest figure since records began in 2001.
There were 1.39 million days lost through industrial disputes in the year to last December, the highest figure since 2002.
Around 164,000 workers were made redundant or took voluntary redundancy in the final quarter of last year, up by 17,000 from the three months to September.
The number of job vacancies increased by 11,000 in recent months to 476,000, although this was 21,000 down on a year ago.
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8 comments
Immigration will continue to rise around the 250,000 to 300,000 mark every year,most will come from the EU former communist bloc. In 2014, the two most poorest and deprived countries will join the EU club, Albania and Macedonia. The rise will then spike by around 600,000 to 1 million in heading for work in the UK. I don't believe any government can conjure up jobs for the expected rise in our population by these figures.....Spain has over 20% unemployment at present and is continuing to rise, this should be a warning of what to expect in the coming few years.
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nrg
Thursday, February 16, 2012
doublebill---are you being disingenuous? yes I've swallowed a dictionary.
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bookworm
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
doublebill---are you being disingenuous? yes I've swallowed a dictionary.
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bookworm
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
blister means there is too much immigration and too few jobs.am i correct?
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bookworm
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
blister are you a politician ? sounds like a cameron quote to blame it on people having kids not his own economic policies
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Double Bill
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
V what kind of vacancies? Well look on Jobs24 website. How many times have you seen the same marketing company have a vacancy listed over 20 times but all worded slighly differently or repeated several times. I contacted EEN about multiple job vacancies saying it distorts the real number of vacanies. Odd how I never got a reply and they still do it.
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chebram71
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
"The number of job vacancies increased by 11,000 in recent months to 476,000, although this was 21,000 down on a year ago". But what type of vacancies were these ??
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"V"
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
it is hardly suprising that there is a continuing rise in unemployment when the population of this country has increased so dramatically over the past few years
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blister
Wednesday, February 15, 2012