Mark Magill
Labour market recovery ‘constrained by availability of workers’
THE north’s official unemployment rate has dropped to a near record low amid repeated reports that employers are struggling to fill vacancies from the current labour stock.
Payroll data 'overstating extent of NI labour market recovery' - economists
THE latest official government data may be overstating the recovery of the north’s labour market, economists have said.
No sign of furlough cliff edge, but Northern Ireland faces new cost of living crisis
THERE was little sign of a surge in redundancies in the run up to the end of furlough, but a new ‘cost of living crisis’ could push more people in Northern Ireland into the ‘working poor’ status.
Several thousand jobs still at risk in Northern Ireland as furlough scheme ends
THE UK Government’s furlough scheme has succeeded in avoiding mass redundancies across the north during the pandemic, but several thousand jobs remain at risk as the initiative ends today.
Redundancies at lowest level since June 2020
THE pace of redundancies continued to ease across the north during April, the latest official labour market data has shown.