THE jobs market has shown early signs of recovery as unemployment fell to 4.8% between January to March this year.
The fall came even though England was in its third national lockdown due to the Covid crisis.
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Official figures from the Office for National Statistics showed this was the largest quarterly decrease since September to November 2015.
The UK’s employment rate increased for the first time since December 2019 to February 2020 as well by 0.2%.
But this is still 1.4%
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