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Jobless rate falls — but more face underemployment
Unemployment now stands at 7.2% but millions lack security in part-time, zero-hours and minimum wage jobs
Unions warned yesterday that the “scourge of underemployment” is continuing to rocket despite a drop in official jobless figures.
The final quarter of 2013 saw unemployment fall 125,000 to 2.34 million — a rate of 7.2 per cent, according to the Office for National Statistics.
The ONS said more women were in work than at any time since records began in 1971 at just over 14m.
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