Growing confidence in the economy has encouraged businesses to start hiring againEmployers created another 182,000 jobs between June and July as the economy emerged strongly from lockdown, official figures show. More than 700,000 jobs have been added to the economy since the start of the year, when the country was still in lockdown. At 28.9 million, payrolls are still 201,000 below their pre-crisis levels, the Office for National Statistics said. SponsoredThe ONS said that the labour market “continues to rebound robustly” from the lockdown. The unemployment rate for the three months to June fell to 4.7 per cent, down from 4.8 per cent

Source: The Times August 17, 2021 08:03 UTC