UK job vacancies highest for a year as lockdown eases
The jobs market is showing “early signs of recovery” as unemployment rate falls, official figures show. …
The pattern is, though, as uneven as the lifting of the restrictions. Hospitality and retail jobs are still well down on pre-pandemic levels, and this means all of the loss in payrolled jobs and more can currently be explained by what has happened to young workers. There are still over four million workers on the furlough scheme, who count as employed.