Economists expected rise in joblessness but companies haven’t cut jobs yet because no one knows what Brexit will look like
If you put Brexit to one side, the latest unemployment figures are no surprise.
They show that Britain’s unemployment rate remained at 4.9% at the end of June, the lowest since 2005, while the number of people claiming jobseeker’s allowance dropped by 8,600 to 763,600 in July, the first fall since February 2016.
Continue reading...from Business blog | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/society/blog/2016/aug/17/unemployment-figures-leave-voters-brexit
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