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Employment
- The adult employment rate for the three months ending April 2004 is 74.8%. The number of people in employment is 28.3m
- The number of unemployed adults fell by 9,000 to reach 1.43m.
- There are 862,000 people claiming Jobseekers’ Allowance, the lowest level since August 1975
- The number of economically inactive people of working age is 7.81m
- Pay growth (excluding bonuses) is at the highest level since May 2002, when the rate was 4.2%. Including bonuses, average earnings rose by 4.3% in the year to April
- In the year to April 2004, consumer prices increased by 1.2%, below the rate of earnings growth
- The estimated number of incidents of violence experienced by workers in England and Wales in 2002/03, including threats as well as physical assaults, was 89,000.
Source: National statistics online
- Over 20,000 people are made redundant every month
- Latest figures from the Confederation of British Industry show absenteeism is costing UK businesses over £11.6 billion each year.
- The cost of sickness absence has increased from £67 per worker to £88 during the past year. Overall the number of days lost to illness has risen by 0.1% in the last year, while the cost of sick days per employee has risen 3.7% to £588 a year.
- According to another poll of 500 firms, by the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) and insurer AXA, Britain’s workers took 176m sick days last year costing £11.6bn – up 10m days from 2002. But employers suspect a large slice of that, 15% or some 25m days, were as a result of “sickies” which are unauthorised extensions of weekends and holidays.
Source: Lifesearch
