The Unemployment Rate Statistics Fiddle ....
‘It has become one of the Conservatives’ go-to messages about their record in government, used to indicate the health of the jobs market.
Except many people don’t think it shows that at all. They argue the employment figures, published monthly by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), are meaningless, or even fiddled , because just one hour of work a week counts as employment‘
“1 employee working 40hrs = 1 Job
40 employees working 1hr = 40 jobs
That's how the Tories make the employment figures sound so good”
https://fullfact.org/economy/employment-since-2010/
‘It has become one of the Conservatives’ go-to messages about their record in government, used to indicate the health of the jobs market.
Except many people don’t think it shows that at all. They argue the employment figures, published monthly by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), are meaningless, or even fiddled , because just one hour of work a week counts as employment‘
“1 employee working 40hrs = 1 Job
40 employees working 1hr = 40 jobs
That's how the Tories make the employment figures sound so good”
https://fullfact.org/economy/employment-since-2010/