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EMPLOYMENT figures in Britain have fallen by the largest amount in over a decade, data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) revealed today.
About 730,000 workers have been removed from payrolls since March, when the coronavirus lockdown began, the ONS found.
Employment rates have continued to decline in the last month as another 81,000 jobs fell off payrolls across the country, the ONS said, pushing the number of employed to just under 28.3 million.
Labour’s watered-down legislation won’t protect us from unfair dismissal or ban some zero-hours contracts until 2027 — leaving millions of young people vulnerable to the populist right’s appeal, warns TUC young workers chair FRASER MCGUIRE
KEVAN NELSON reveals how, through its Organising to Win strategy, which has launched targeted campaigns like Pay Fair for Patient Care, Britain’s largest union bucked the trend of national decline by growing by 70,000 members in two years