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European labour law regulates basic transnational standards of employment and partnership at work in the European Union and countries adhering to the European Convention on Human Rights. In setting regulatory floors to competition for job-creating investment within the Union, and in promoting a degree of employee consultation in the workplace ...
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As of February 2024, the U.K. unemployment rate is 3.8%, down from 3.9% in January. [2] [3] In the three-month figures (July to September 2022) [4] [needs update] the unemployment rate was estimated at 3.6%, which is 0.2 percentage points lower than the previous three-month period. The ONS said the employment rate, or percentage of people in ...
Statistical data are available by member state for the European Union as a whole (EU28) as well as for the eurozone (EA19). Eurostat also includes a long-term unemployment rate, which is defined as part of the unemployed who have been unemployed for more than one year. The main source used is the European Union Labour Force Survey (EU-LFS).
Graduate unemployment, or educated unemployment, is unemployment among people with an academic degree.. Aggravating factors for unemployment are the rapidly increasing quantity of international graduates competing for an inadequate number of suitable jobs, schools not keeping their curriculums relevant to the job market, the growing pressure on schools to increase access to education (which ...
Pandemic-driven spike in unemployment. In April 2020, the nation’s unemployment rate spiked to 14.8% as more than 21 million jobs were lost, Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows. In tourism ...
The unemployment rate for workers 55 and older fell from 2.8% in February to 2.6% last month, according to the most recent Bureau of Labor Statistics report. That’s the lowest point since last July.
Youth unemployment. Young people protesting about youth unemployment in Hamburg. Youth unemployment is a special case of unemployment; youth, here, meaning those between the ages of 15 and 24. [1] Young people have difficulties finding work, consistently different from those of the general workforce. They also are affected in distinct ways.