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In Northern Ireland, the number of payrolled employees has gone up for the eighth consecutive month, according to the latest labour market figures, with an increase of 21,400 employees (2.9 per cent) in just the last three months, Belfast Telegraph reports.
Figures published by the NI Statistics and Research Agency (Nisra) on August 17 show the number of payrolled employees remaining above pre-pandemic levels for the second consecutive month.
The number of employees receiving pay through HMRC PAYE in NI in July 2021 was 762,600, an increase of 1.1 per cent over the month and 3.1 per cent over the year. This is also reportedly the highest figure on record. Nisra used HMRC payroll data to compile the statistics.
Employee numbers are now at their highest level on record and are 1.3 per cent above those recorded in March 2020, pre-pandemic.
However, the number of redundancies in July is the highest so far for 2021. 250 redundancies were confirmed last month, taking the total over the year to 5,750.
This annual total was 81 per cent higher than in 2020 when the total stood at 3,180.
Meanwhile, the number of proposed collective redundancies has climbed, going from 150 in May to 490 in June and 850 in July. This takes the total number of proposed collective redundancies in the last twelve months to 6,090.
These levels of proposed redundancies remain below the 2020 average of 920 redundancies per month.
The unemployment rate has increased over the quarter and over the year. During April-June 2021 the Labour Force Survey estimated the rate to be at 3.8 per cent, an increase of 0.4 per cent and 1.2 per cent over the year.
The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) supported approximately 44,000 jobs at the end of June, a take-up rate of 6 per cent, continuing the downward trend from approximately 117,000 supported jobs during January.
For the fifth consecutive month, the number of claimants decreased. In July the seasonally adjusted number of people on the claimant count was 50,000 (5.1 per cent of the workforce). This is reportedly a decrease of 800 (1.5 per cent) from the previous month’s revised figure.
The CJRS claimant count for July was 22 per cent below the recent peak in May 2020, and 64 per cent higher than the pre-pandemic count in March 2020.
Northern Ireland had the second-lowest unemployment rate in the UK overall, the lowest employment rate and the highest economic inactivity rate of all the UK regions.
Source: Belfast Telegraph
In Northern Ireland, the number of payrolled employees has gone up for the eighth consecutive month, according to the latest labour market figures, with an increase of 21,400 employees (2.9 per cent) in just the last three months, Belfast Telegraph reports.
Figures published by the NI Statistics and Research Agency (Nisra) on August 17 show the number of payrolled employees remaining above pre-pandemic levels for the second consecutive month.
The number of employees receiving pay through HMRC PAYE in NI in July 2021 was 762,600, an increase of 1.1 per cent over the month and 3.1 per cent over the year. This is also reportedly the highest figure on record. Nisra used HMRC payroll data to compile the statistics.
Employee numbers are now at their highest level on record and are 1.3 per cent above those recorded in March 2020, pre-pandemic.
However, the number of redundancies in July is the highest so far for 2021. 250 redundancies were confirmed last month, taking the total over the year to 5,750.
This annual total was 81 per cent higher than in 2020 when the total stood at 3,180.
Meanwhile, the number of proposed collective redundancies has climbed, going from 150 in May to 490 in June and 850 in July. This takes the total number of proposed collective redundancies in the last twelve months to 6,090.
These levels of proposed redundancies remain below the 2020 average of 920 redundancies per month.
The unemployment rate has increased over the quarter and over the year. During April-June 2021 the Labour Force Survey estimated the rate to be at 3.8 per cent, an increase of 0.4 per cent and 1.2 per cent over the year.
The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) supported approximately 44,000 jobs at the end of June, a take-up rate of 6 per cent, continuing the downward trend from approximately 117,000 supported jobs during January.
For the fifth consecutive month, the number of claimants decreased. In July the seasonally adjusted number of people on the claimant count was 50,000 (5.1 per cent of the workforce). This is reportedly a decrease of 800 (1.5 per cent) from the previous month’s revised figure.
The CJRS claimant count for July was 22 per cent below the recent peak in May 2020, and 64 per cent higher than the pre-pandemic count in March 2020.
Northern Ireland had the second-lowest unemployment rate in the UK overall, the lowest employment rate and the highest economic inactivity rate of all the UK regions.
Source: Belfast Telegraph