UK jobs market booms despite end of furlough scheme
by Richard Partington Economics correspondent from on (#5RZ6J)
Unemployment rate drops to 4.3% as businesses recruit after removal of Covid restrictions
The number of workers on UK company payrolls rose sharply last month despite the end of the government's furlough scheme, after a record increase in people moving from unemployment into work ahead of its closure.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said Britain's employers added 160,000 more workers to their payrolls in October, taking the total to 29.3million in the first month after the removal of the multibillion-pound wage subsidy scheme.
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