REDUNDANCIES have hit new record highs with 370,000 workers losing their jobs in the three months to October.
It comes as the unemployment rate hit 4.9% during the period, with 1.69million people now without a job, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
The unemployment figures are up 411,000 on the same period the previous year and up 241,000 on the quarter.
Darren Morgan, ONS’ director of economic statistics, said: “Overall we have seen a continuation of recent trends, with a further weakening in the labour market.
“The latest monthly tax numbers show over 800,000 fewer employees on the payroll in November than in February, with new analysis finding that over a third of this fall came from the hospitality sector.
“In the three months to October, employment was still falling sharply and unemployment was rising, but the number of people neither working nor looking for work was little changed.
“Average hours per worker were continuing to recover, though this was before the second lockdown in England.
“While there was another record rise in redundancies in the latest three months as a whole, they began to ease during October.”
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