Great Britain: senior and immigrant workers could explain the activity rate’s rise

The last official statistics show a deterioration of the unemployment figures, contradicted by the improvement of the activity ratio. A study of the Chartered Institute of Personal & Development (CIPD) explains this phenomenon by increasingly massive recruitment of people who could retire, less recipients of long disease benefits and the employment of immigrant workers. (Ref. 06624)
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According to the study, there were 77.000 more unemployed persons over 3 months, that is to say 1.6 million people. And even according to the most restrictive measurements, which counts only 5.800 more unemployed persons, Great Britain is dangerously close to one million unemployed persons (950 900). But meanwhile, statistics show 130.000 extra people in activity, with a total of 28.9 million active people. The answer is in the companies’ new recruiting policies. The annual study of the CIPD o

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