{"id":268844,"date":"2025-07-17T08:29:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T08:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/268844\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T08:29:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T08:29:11","slug":"unemployment-rate-rises-in-northern-ireland-and-wage-growth-slows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/268844\/","title":{"rendered":"Unemployment rate rises in Northern Ireland and wage growth slows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The number of workers on company payrolls in Northern Ireland fell slightly last month to 809,200, but is still higher than the same time last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The proportion of people in work, or the employment rate, rose over the quarter to 72.1%, however it is still lower than the same time last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The number of people not in work nor looking for a job &#8211; known as the economic inactivity rate &#8211; improved over the quarter, falling to 26.3%, but that is still slightly higher than last summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The most common reason was &#8220;long-term sick&#8221; accounting for 39.3% of the total economically inactive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The number of workers on company payrolls in Northern Ireland fell slightly last month to 809,200, but is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[1144,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-268844","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-northern-ireland","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114867638340918671","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}