Labour market

New and updated

• Type:

  Indicators

  Working hours

  Updated to include official statistics from the ONS on average weekly hours worked in the UK for the three months to the end of September 2020. The next ONS release date is 15 December 2020.

• Type:

  Indicators

  Employment

  Updated to include the latest official statistics from the ONS on employment and unemployment, and labour market forecasts from HM Treasury and ManpowerGroup. The next ONS release date is 15 December 2020.

• Date:

  10 November 2020

  Type:

  News

  Job losses reach record high despite summer reopenings

  Redundancies hit a new record high in the late summer and early autumn despite the easing of lockdown measures, new estimates from the Office for National Statistics have shown.

• Type:

  Indicators

  Recruitment

  Updated to include data for October 2020 on the availability and recruitment of permanent and temporary staff from IHS Markit/KPMG/Recruitment & Employment Confederation. The next figures are due to be published on 9 December 2020.

• Date:

  16 October 2020

  Type:

  Editor's choice

  Take part in our workforce planning during coronavirus survey

  Take part in XpertHR's workforce planning during coronavirus survey, gathering data on labour turnover, recruitment difficulties and readiness for Brexit.

• Date:

  11 August 2020

  Type:

  News

  Employees on payrolls fall by largest amount in 11 years

  The number of employees on payrolls fell by 730,000 between March and July 2020 - the largest quarterly drop since 2009 - but recruitment bodies suggest there have been signs of recovery over recent weeks.

• Date:

  16 July 2020

  Type:

  News

  UK records biggest fall in working hours since 1971

  The number of weekly working hours in the UK has fallen by 16.7%, the largest decrease since records began in 1971 with total hours dropping to their lowest level since the early summer of 1997.

• Date:

  8 July 2020

  Type:

  News

  Employers to receive £1k bonus for bringing staff back from furlough

  Chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced a £1,000 "job retention bonus" for employers that bring workers back from furlough.

• Date:

  16 June 2020

  Type:

  News

  Employees on payrolls drop 600,000 in two months

  The UK could be heading into an "employment crisis", commentators have warned, as the number of employees on payrolls dropped by 612,000 in two months.

• Date:

  22 April 2020

  Type:

  News

  UK employment at all-time high before lockdown

  The UK employment rate reached a record high before social distancing and coronavirus lockdown measures forced the closure of the majority of workplaces.