U.S. Unemployment rates rise in March

The Office for National Statistics said that the unemployment rate in the United Kingdom rose to 3.9% in the three months before March, and the basic salary increased by 6.7% in the three months before March compared to the same period last year, and this increase was Driven by the acceleration of public sector wage growth to 5.6%, the largest increase since 2003.

The Office for National Statistics said that provisional data from the British Tax Office showed the first decline in total related employees in more than two years in April, down 136,000 from March. .

The data of the National Statistics Office showed that the pace of growth in wages remained strong, but a slight acceleration in basic wages was driven by the public sector, while the rate of increase in total wages, including bonuses, remained constant.