MADRID, August 15 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The unemployment rate in the UK hit 4.2% in the second quarter of this year, three tenths over the previous quarter, according to data published on Tuesday by the UK Office for National Statistics (ONS), which attributed the unemployment rebound to a 6-month increase in unemployment.
For its part, the UK employment rate closed in the second quarter at 75.7%, a tenth lower than in the first quarter of this year. According to the ONS, the decline in employment was due to full-time wage workers and the self-employed.
The forecast for salaried workers shows a monthly increase of 97,000 people in July compared to the revised figure for June 2023, to 30.2 million people.
In addition, from May to July, the number of vacancies decreased by 66,000 people to 1,020,000. For its part, the ONS highlighted that, due to strikes and labor conflicts, 160,000 days were lost in June, more than half of them in the health and social work sectors.
British workers posted annual wage growth of 7.8%, excluding bonuses, in the second quarter, which was the biggest increase since 2001, when a similar streak began.
The annual growth of the average employee’s total salary, including bonuses, was 8.2%. In real terms (adjusted for inflation), annual growth was 0.5% for total salary and 0.1% for normal salary (excluding bonuses).
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