UK unemployment dips as economy reopens ...Middle East

LONDON: Britain’s unemployment rate dipped to 4.7% in the three month to the end of April as the UK economy began to emerge from its lockdown, official data showed Tuesday.Unemployment eased from a rate of 4.8% in the first quarter, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said in a statement.The jobs market is being helped also by the government’s furlough scheme paying the bulk of wages for millions of private-sector workers.In May, “the number of employees on payroll grew strongly...., up by almost 200,000, although it is still over half a million down since the pandemic struck”, noted Sam Beckett, ONS head of economic statistics.Data showed more employers were seeking to hire, with stron

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