Latest ONS data | What can staff do with rising job losses?

The UK unemployment data has hit its highest rate in three years – sitting at 4.5% in the three months to August.

In addition, redundancies rose to their highest level since 2009, the Office for National Statistics said.

As Jack Kennedy, UK economist at the global job site Indeed, commented: “The pandemic’s human cost, in jobs lost and livelihoods impacted, is slowly being laid bare. The number of people claiming benefits has surged to 2.7 million and two thirds of a million fewer people are working now compared to March."

So, in the event that an employee does receive the devastating news that they are out of a job, what should they do?