Coronavirus And Redundancies In The Uk Labour Market: September To November 2020

19th February 2021

How the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic impacted on redundancies using the UK labour market statistics for the period September to November 2020.

The increase in UK redundancy rates during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is faster than during the 2008 to 2009 economic downturn.

The administrative and support services industry had the highest redundancy rate in the period July to November 2020, at 35.8 per thousand employees.

Disabled employees had higher than average redundancy rates.

Vacancies in the accommodation and food service activities industry declined the most (negative 64.0%), while redundancies increased the most (400.4%) in the transport and storage industry in the year to November 2020.

Experimental Business Impact of COVID-19 Survey data show that the proportion of businesses' workforce on furlough leave increased by 10.6 percentage points to 18.3% between October 2020 and January 2021.

This report was published by the Office for National Statistics on 19 February 2021. Read the full report at -

https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/employmentandemployeetypes/articles/labourmarketeconomicanalysisquarterly/december2020