Summary of latest labour market data

Online retail giant Amazon has said it will create a further 7,000 UK jobs this year to meet growing demand. Amazon said it had already added 3,000 roles so far in 2020, and so by the end of the year it will have created a total of 10,000 new jobs.

Supermarket giant Morrisons has said it's hired more than 45,000 new staff as demand for groceries soared in the face of the pandemic.

UK employers have slashed 695,000 jobs since March when the coronavirus first sent Britain into national lockdown. Britain’s official unemployment rate also increased as expected by analysts to 4.1% between May July from 3.9% a month earlier, according to new data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) published on Tuesday.

Domino’s Pizza, Britain’s biggest pizza delivery chain, is to create 5,000 new jobs and support more than 1,000 placements in the government’s fledgling Kickstart scheme as it gears up for its busiest time of year.

Iceland has created 3,000 new jobs to help cope with a surge in demand for online groceries since lockdown.

We’ve recently been using datasets such as Claimant Counts and Furlough data, to try and glean some insights into the state of the labour market in the UK as the crisis has unfolded throughout the year.