{"id":89217,"date":"2018-02-21T11:02:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T11:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=3056adf0612b66ca0693cc10f1bdffd6"},"modified":"2018-02-21T11:02:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T11:02:00","slug":"press-release-employment-remains-at-near-record-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=89217","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Employment remains at near-record high"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Today\u2019s figures also show that groups across society are accessing new job opportunities:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>nearly 500,000 more people from a black and minority ethnic background (<abbr title=\"black and minority ethnic\">BAME<\/abbr>) have started working since 2015<\/li>\n<li>the gender employment rate gap is at a near-record low, just 8.9%<\/li>\n<li>every region across the UK has seen employment increase since 2010<\/li>\n<li>youth unemployment has fallen by over 40% since 2010<\/li>\n<li>there are a record breaking number of workers aged 50 plus in work, reaching 10 million<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure class=\"image embedded\">\n<div class=\"img\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.publishing.service.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/image_data\/file\/71913\/lms-feb-2018-75-point-2-per-cent-employment-rate.png\" alt=\"The employment rate is at a near record high of 75.2% (February 2018).\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Minister for Employment Alok Sharma said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>High employment rates are a reliable feature of today\u2019s economy \u2013 and this is an incredible achievement. It is equally important that across society everyone has the opportunity to get a good job and get on in life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Today\u2019s figures show that this government is building a fairer economy that supports people from all backgrounds to get into work. We are closing the <abbr title=\"black and minority ethnic\">BAME<\/abbr> and gender employment gaps, and people across the country are accessing new opportunities.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Separate figures out today showed that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/collections\/universal-credit-statistics\">730,000 people are now on Universal Credit<\/a>. Of these, 40% were in employment (290,000).<\/p>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p>Read the <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ons.gov.uk\/employmentandlabourmarket\/peopleinwork\/employmentandemployeetypes\/bulletins\/uklabourmarket\/february2018\">Labour Market Statistics \u2013 February 2017<\/a> from the Office for National Statistics.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 id=\"contact-press-office\">Contact Press Office<\/h2>\n<div class=\"contact postal-address\" id=\"contact_827\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<h3>Press Office<\/h3>\n<div class=\"vcard contact-inner\">\n<p class=\"adr\">\n<span class=\"street-address\">Caxton House<br \/>\n<br \/>\nTothill Street<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"locality\">London<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"postal-code\">SW1H 9NA<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"email-url-number\">\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">London Press Office (national media and London area enquiries only \u2013 not questions about personal claims)<\/span><br \/>\n              020 3267 5144\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Out-of-hours (journalists only)<\/span><br \/>\n              076 59 108 883\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">England and Wales (local media enquiries)<\/span><br \/>\n              029 20 586 then 097 or 098 or 099\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Scotland (local media enquiries)<\/span><br \/>\n              0131 310 1122\n            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Follow <abbr title=\"Department for Work and Pensions\">DWP<\/abbr> on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Twitter \u2013 <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/dwppressoffice\">www.twitter.com\/dwppressoffice<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>Facebook \u2013 <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/dwp\">www.facebook.com\/dwp<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>LinkedIn \u2013 <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/dwp\">www.linkedin.com\/company\/dwp<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>YouTube \u2013 <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/dwp\">www.youtube.com\/dwp<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Official figures released today show that the unemployment rate remains at a near-record low of 4.4%, with the employment rate at a near-record high of 75.2%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89217"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}