{"id":488736,"date":"2025-10-10T16:12:35","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T16:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/488736\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T16:12:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T16:12:35","slug":"surge-in-job-seekers-ahead-of-winter-budget-guido-fawkes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/488736\/","title":{"rendered":"Surge in Job Seekers Ahead of Winter Budget \u2013 Guido Fawkes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The number of job vacancies fell at their fastest pace since the dark days of the pandemic in September, <a href=\"https:\/\/kpmg.com\/uk\/en\/media\/press-releases\/2025\/10\/kpmg-and-rec-report-on-jobs-october.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according<\/a> to REC and KPMG\u2019s leading Jobs Survey. The number of people looking for jobs has also spiked\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The number of permanent placements in London dropped at the quickest pace since August 2020. The biggest drops on the month came in the retail, hotel and catering, and professional sectors, thanks to Reeves\u2019 tax raid last year. KPMG\u2019s UK Senior Partner Jon Holt said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWith very little positive news out there on the economy in recent months, and lots of speculation about the Budget, it is understandable that employers are cautious with their hiring. The jobs market has not yet turned a corner and remains tough.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Meanwhile, Treasury minister Torsten Bell\u2019s old outfit the Resolution Foundation is pushing for Reeves to raise income tax in the Budget as it\u2019s the \u201cmost reliable option\u201d. Shivers in the City\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The number of job vacancies fell at their fastest pace since the dark days of the pandemic in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[51,16,15,157857],"class_list":{"0":"post-488736","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-winter-budget"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115350755402420309","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488736","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=488736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}