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The unemployment data released today shows that Clackmanshire is the hardest place in Great Britain to find a job, with over 50 claimants chasing each vacancy. Clackmanshire has featured fairly regularly in the top 10 over the last year.
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TUC analysis published today using official figures, shows that the number of men doing part-time jobs because they can’t find full-time work more than doubled to nearly 600,000 between December 2007 and December 2011. The number of under-employed women has increased by 74% to 780,000, bringing the total number of people in involuntary part-time work to a record 1.38 million.
The proportion of women working part-time that don’t want a full-time job, often because of family and caring responsibilities, has also been falling. This shows that the recent rise in part-time employment has mainly come about through necessity rather than choice.
Anjum Klair
The unemployment data released today shows that not only is West Dunbartonshire still the hardest place in Great Britain to find a job, the number of claimants chasing each vacancy has increased from thirty one to thirty six.
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TUC analysis published today ahead of a busy week of economic indicators, shows that the manufacturing and construction sectors have suffered the biggest loss of jobs since the eve of the recession, while finance and business services is the only sector with a bigger workforce today.
The analysis looks at industries including construction, manufacturing, retail, hotels and restaurants, and the finance and business services sector. The analysis found that the types of jobs that account for over half of all youth employment – manufacturing, construction and retail, hotels and restaurants – have shed nearly a million jobs since 2007.
Anjum Klair
The unemployment data released today shows that West Dunbartonshire is the hardest place in Great Britain to find a job. In West Dunbartonshire there are over thirty dole claimants chasing each vacancy.
Anjum Klair
A TUC report to the Women’s Conference, published today, highlights the employment challenges currently facing women. The report shows that with many thousands of skilled professional women in the public sector set to lose their jobs, the concentration of female private sector employment in low skilled and poorly paid sectors poses a big challenge to their pay and career prospects.
Anjum Klair
New analysis published by the TUC today shows that unemployment in the UK stands at 6.3 million, when using the American U6 measure of unemployment. While the UK has two common measures of joblessness, ILO unemployment (2.69 million) and the claimant count (1.6 million), the US uses six measures of joblessness that incorporate long-term unemployment, recent job losses, redundancies and under-employment, such as working part-time because full-time work isn’t available.
Anjum Klair
So, according to DWP minister Maria Miller, there is no shortage of jobs.
Every month I report on the latest unemployment data, the number of people claiming JSA and the number of vacancies in each Local Authority. The last set of data showed that there are as many as 20 people chasing the one vacancy in some areas, in Lewisham there are almost thirty five dole claimants chasing each vacancy.
Anjum Klair
The unemployment data released today shows that Lewisham is the hardest place in Great Britain to find a job. In Lewisham there are almost thirty five dole claimants chasing each vacancy. Since we have been reporting on employment blackspots (March 2011), Lewisham has been in the top 10 employment blackspots every month.
Anjum Klair
New TUC analysis published today, shows that the number of dole claimants who have been out of work for at least a year has increased by 35,000 since last year, with over a quarter of a million people set to spend their second successive Christmas on the dole.
