Grim unemployment figures show 782,000 UK workers have lost jobs since March
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mirror.co.ukThe number of UK workers on payrolls has now fallen by 782,000 between March and October due to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.
In the three months to September 2020, the most recent figures in the report, redundancies reached a record high of 314,000 - up 181,000 on the quarter.
The overall UK unemployment rate over the same period was 4.8%, up 0.9 percentage points on the same period last year and 0.7 points on the previous quarter.
An estimated 1.62 million people were unemployed, the ONS said, 318,000 more than a year earlier and 243,000 more than the previous quarter.
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