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22/01/2009
'Record redundancies' see unemployment climb to 1.92m |
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Official figures show that unemployment increased to 1.92 million in the three months to November 2008.
This number of people unemployed in the UK during this time was 131,000 more than during the three months to August 2008 and 290,000 more than in the corresponding period of 2007.
Statistics show that redundancies are pushing up unemployment figures, with 225,000 people losing their jobs in this manner between September and November of last year - up 101,000 from the same period of 2007.
The redundancy rate was 8.9 per 1,000 employees, up 3.1 from the three months to August 2008.
Commenting on the figures, Trades Union Congress general secretary Brendan Barber said that there is "no disguising how bad" the employment figures are.
"More importantly these figures stop at November 2008 and do not take into account the redundancies announced over the past eight weeks at companies like Woolworths, Santander, Barclays, Denby, Land Rover, JCB, Burberry, Zavvi, Grattan and Empire Direct," he added.
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