{"id":119127,"date":"2019-04-18T02:00:16","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T02:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/uk-employment-hits-record-high-driven-by-women-finding-work-2\/"},"modified":"2019-04-18T02:00:16","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T02:00:16","slug":"uk-employment-hits-record-high-driven-by-women-finding-work-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/en\/uk-employment-hits-record-high-driven-by-women-finding-work-2\/","title":{"rendered":"UK employment hits record high driven by women finding work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cityam.com\/assets\/uploads\/main-image\/full_width_article_body_image\/work-continues-on-the-crossrail-railway-project-460184106-5cb5941bf1cb7.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The number of people in work in Britain hit a record high in the three months to February 2019, driven mainly by more women finding jobs, pushing up wages as firms kept hiring during political impasse in Westminster.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityam.com\/274884\/employment-rate-jumps-record-high\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Employment rate jumps to record high<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Britains unemployment rate fell by 0.1 percentage points in the three months to February to reach 3.9 per cent, the lowest since the mid-1970s. This pushed the employment rate to 76.1 per cent compared to 75.4 per cent a year earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Rising employment boosted average weekly earnings, excluding bonuses, which increased by 3.4 per cent in the first quarter of 2019 compared to a year earlier, new data by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has shown.<\/p>\n<p>The wage rise meant that real average weekly earnings \u2013 with inflation taken into account \u2013 increased by 1.6 per cent in the first quarter year-on-year. Real wages remain below their pre-financial crisis levels, however.<\/p>\n<p>Real pay growth was mainly caused by a fall in the consumer price index including housing costs (CPIH), which meant peoples pay could buy more.<\/p>\n<p>The rise in employment was largely spurred on by 142,000 women joining the workforce.<\/p>\n<p>The government hailed the results, with employment minister Alok Sharma saying: \u201cThe UK jobs market continues to go from strength to strength, proving the underlying resilience of the British economy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must not take this for granted. We need to work urgently to get behind a Brexit deal that protects this jobs record and gives employers the certainty to continue to invest in their workforce and boost wages.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Matt Hughes, ONS deputy head of labour market statistics, said: \u201cEarnings have now been growing ahead of inflation for over a year but, in real terms, wage levels have not yet returned to their pre-downturn peak.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Senior economist at the Institute of Directors (IoD), Tej Parikh, said Brexit uncertainty could be a factor in firms&#039; hiring decisions. \u201cMany firms have lacked the confidence to put funding toward training, technology, and new machinery, which has in turn meant firms need to hire more workers to lift output,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithout a pick<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityam.com\/276333\/uk-employment-hits-record-high-driven-women-finding-work\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read More \u2013 Source<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n[contf]<br \/>\n[contfnew]<br \/>\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/loopup.com\/app\/uploads\/2016\/08\/cityam-logo.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<h5><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityam.com\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CityAM<\/a><\/h5>\n<p>[contfnewc]<br \/>\n[contfnewc]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of people in work in Britain hit a record high in the three months to February 2019, driv..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":119129,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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