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Redundancies reach record 370,000 between August and October

Rebecca by Rebecca Chaplin
December 16, 2020
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Record numbers of redundancies took place between August and October, official figures out today (Dec 15) show.

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported that redundancies reached a record high of 370,000 in the run up to the second lockdown, although numbers did drop slightly in October.

Unemployment in the UK was up to 4.9 per cent in October, up from 4.8 per cent in the previous month.

However, this comes in below the expectations of economists that predicted an unemployment rate of 5.1 per cent by that point.

The number of UK workers on payrolls dropped slightly last month, and has fallen by 819,000 between February and November due to the impact of Covid-19, the ONS added.

ONS director of economic statistics Darren Morgan said: ‘Overall, we have seen a continuation of recent trends, with a further weakening in the labour market.

‘The latest monthly tax numbers show over 800,000 fewer employees on the payroll in November than in February, with new analysis finding that over a third of this fall came from the hospitality sector.

‘In the three months to October, employment was still falling sharply and unemployment was rising, but the number of people neither working nor looking for work was little changed.

‘Average hours per worker were continuing to recover, though this was before the second lockdown in England.

‘While there was another record rise in redundancies in the latest three months as a whole, they began to ease during October.’

Minister for employment Mims Davies added: ‘It’s been a truly challenging year for many families but with a vaccine beginning to roll out with more perhaps to follow and the number of job vacancies increasing, there is hope on the horizon for 2021.’

The claimant count increased slightly to 2.7m, including people working with low income and hours as well as people who are not working.

The figures came for the period shortly before England entered into a second national lockdown.

As a result, the government decided to extend its furlough scheme until March next year, ensuring that employees who cannot work will get up to 80 per cent of their salaries.

Laura Stewart-Smith, head of workplace savings and retirement at Aviva, said: ‘This latest data brings the impact the pandemic has had on the UK labour market into sharp relief.

‘A rise in the headline unemployment rate is likely to have been driven by sectors that have absorbed the hardest income hits and businesses that were unable to adapt their operations during the second lockdown in England.

‘The extension of the furlough scheme to March 2021 has provided some much-needed respite for some firms.

‘However, many workers may have slipped through the net as employers prepared for the scheme to be wound down in November.’

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