March Labour Market Statistics: comment from the Institute for Employment Studies
20 Mar 2025
Commenting on today's figures, Seemanti Ghosh, Principal Economist at the Institute for Employment Studies said:
“Today’s figures continue to disappoint and raises immediate wider policy concerns. At a time when employers are already adjusting business plans to address anticipated cost increases, the economy remains sluggish.
"The planned changes to accessing ill-health benefits to incentivise employment could exacerbate major challenges, if parallel changes to employment and careers support and to employers’ recruitment strategies do not keep pace. Supporting more disabled people and people with long-term health conditions into good quality work is even more challenging in a context of a slow economy.
"This is an urgent call for the government to bring forward activation of the growth plan to ‘Get Britain Working’ to support the proposed changes to the welfare system to work effectively."
Read our analysis here.
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