UK unemployment rate rise in March

The Office for National Statistics said that the UK's unemployment rate rose to 3.9% in the three months to March, and basic salary increased by 6.7% in the three months to March compared to the same period last year. This increase was driven by an acceleration in the growth of public sector wages to 5.6%, the largest increase since 2003.

The Office for National Statistics said that provisional data from the British Tax Office showed the first decline in total related employees in more than two years in April, down 136,000 from March. . The data of the National Statistics Office showed that the pace of growth in wages remained strong, but a slight acceleration in basic wages was driven by the public sector, while the rate of increase in total wages, including bonuses, remained constant.