UK unemployment stops improving in opening four months of 2015

UK unemployment stops improving in opening four months of 2015

Unemployment rate has become stagnant in the first four months of 2015, at 5.58Percent in April compared to 5.60 percent in January. However, unemployment set to fall away much more rapidly in next three months, with current hiring patterns meaning Adzuna forecasts an unemployment rate of 5.04Percent in July.

Total unemployed population drops by just 5,000 from January to April, but will drop by over 177,000 from April to July. The NHS list 12,000 new vacancies in April, over five times as many as Tesco – currently the next biggest employer in terms of hiring. Unemployment in the UK has become static, after failing to improve in the first four months of 2015, according to the first Unemployment Predictor from

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