The jobless rate surpassed expectations, with a drop of 41,000 payroll employees in June and job vacancies declining for the third year to 727,000. Wage growth also slowed to 5%, with private sector ...

Unemployment across the West Midlands region climbed to reach the second highest rate in the UK last month, new figures show.

Britain's unemployment rate climbed to 4.7 percent in the three months to the end of May, the highest level since June 2021. That compared with 4.6 percent in the February-April period.

People aged 16 and 17 will be able to vote in the next general election, after Labour announced a major move to lower the ...

Analysis also looked at the number of UK claimants and reported that the count rose in June to 1,743,000 people, while the estimated number of vacancies in the UK fell by 56,000 across the April to ...