Part-time workers drive rise in employment

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The UK's employment complaint edged higher successful the archetypal 3 months of the year, driven by an summation successful the fig of part-time and self-employed workers.

The complaint roseate to 75.9% betwixt January and March, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said, up from 75.7% successful the erstwhile quarter.

The unemployment complaint besides roseate somewhat to 3.9% successful the aforesaid period.

The ONS said this meant the fig of those neither moving nor looking for enactment had continued to fall.

However, it added that the fig of radical not moving owed to semipermanent sickness roseate again to a caller record.

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