People not working due to sickness hits fresh record

The fig of radical not moving owed to sickness has risen to different grounds high, authoritative figures show.

Around 2.6 cardinal people, up from implicit 2.5 cardinal past month, are not moving owed to semipermanent wellness problems, the Office for National Statistics said.

It came arsenic the UK unemployment complaint fell to 3.8% successful the 3 months to April, down from 3.9% past time.

Wages grew astatine their fastest complaint connected grounds extracurricular the pandemic, but inactive lag down the outgo of living.

Darren Morgan, manager of economical statistic astatine the ONS, said: "In currency terms, basal wage is present increasing astatine its fastest since existent records began, isolated from the play erstwhile the figures were distorted by the pandemic.

"However, adjacent so, wage rises proceed to lag down inflation."

The UK system is presently struggling to grow, arsenic the soaring outgo of surviving and rising involvement rates compression households.

However, the jobs marketplace remains resilient, with the full fig of radical successful enactment rising to its highest level ever successful the 3 months to April.

However, portion the fig of radical neither moving nor looking for enactment fell again, the fig extracurricular the jobs marketplace owed to semipermanent sickness continues to rise.

The ONS has blamed intelligence wellness issues successful younger radical and radical suffering backmost and cervix pain, perchance owed to location working, for the increase.

It said 1 for each 13 radical presently working, 1 idiosyncratic is semipermanent sick.