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UK employers add jobs in Dec, unemployment falls -Breaking

by Mike Robinson

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© Reuters. FILEPHOTO: From Parliament Hill in northern London, a woman gazes towards the City of London’s financial district. March 31, 2015 REUTERS/Toby Melville

LONDON, (Reuters) – British employers added 184,000 employees to their payrolls during December, according to monthly tax data on Tuesday. This brings the total number of staff at 1.4% higher than their February 2020 level, before COVID-19.

According to the Office for National Statistics, the unemployment rate for three months ended November at 4.1%. This is lower than the forecasts of economists from Reuters, which was for 4.2%.

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