News Tag: finance and business services sector

May 14, 2009

Unemployment in the UK rising at record pace

by Kay Murchie
The UK’s unemployment rate currently stands at 7.1% and has risen by 1.3 percentage points since the third quarter of last year, and according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS) - this is a rate not seen since the early 1980s. Job losses have been particularly rife in the finance and business services sector (one of the UK’s three ...

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