Redundancies
17/11/2004 | Posted by John Smith in UK stats
The total number of redundancies has fallen to a rate of 5.5 per 1,000 employees after peaking in November to January 1999 at 8.7 redundancies per 1,000 employees, redundancy rates have generally declined.
Redundancy rates remain higher for men than for women. In the three months to September 2004 men had a redundancy rate of 6.4 per 1,000 employees compared with a rate of 4.5 per 1,000 for women. For men the redundancy rate has broadly followed the same trend as that for all people, falling fairly steadily since around March to May 2002. For women the general trend has been slightly different as rates fell more steeply over the early part of 2002 and subsequently increased in February to April 2003. The rates for women have fluctuated at around 4 per 1,000 employees since this period.
Source: National Statistics Online