Record numbers not working due to ill health
Mental health issues and back and neck pain have contributed to the rise in long-term sickness. …
Speaking to the BBC’s Today programme, Darren Morgan, director of economic statistics at the ONS, said that since the Covid pandemic started there are “well over 400,000 more people outside of the labour market due to ill health and that means we are now at a new record level of comfortably over two and a half million”.
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