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Northern Ireland construction and engineering firm Dowds Group has unveiled a landmark employee benefits and rewards package, a bold move aimed at addressing the construction industry’s ongoing talent crisis and setting a new benchmark for employers across the UK economy. Pictured is Dowds CEO Louise McClellan and team

NI firm takes aim at talent crisis with landmark benefits and rewards package

Britain’s jobless rate has hit its highest level in nearly four years, now at 4.6 per cent.

Business News: Unemployment rates hit highest rate in four years

Manufacturing and Engineering are on the rise according to the latest NIJobs Job Report.

Report shows strong NI jobs market despite global economic uncertainty

Brits dodge financial scenarios as 20% struggle with everyday maths

Brits dodge financial scenarios as 20% struggle with everyday maths

File photo dated 19/02/23 of the East Link toll bridge at Dublin port.

Ireland’s economy expected to grow over next two years, experts say

UK unemployment rate rises to 3.7% amid cost of living crisis according to ONS

Unemployment rate rises to 3.7% according to ONS

People walk near the Job Centre in Westminster.

Unemployment rate increases as UK economy heads for recession

(L-R) Deputy Governor for Monetary Policy, Ben Broadbent, Executive Director for Communications, James Bell, Governor of the Bank of England, Andrew Bailey, and Deputy Governor for Markets and Banking, Dave Ramsden, during the Bank of England's financial stability report press conference.

Largest interest rate hike in decades a ‘cruel necessity’

The largescale UK Treasury support for Northern Ireland is viewed as a normal cost of maintaining the union. Support is also fairly lavish for other devolved regions although never as much as for NI

Economist: Treasury spending bonanza has kept Northern Ireland economy strong

A queue outside a jobless centre in England before the pandemic. Deaths from unemployment and poverty caused by lockdown are often viewed as just a statistic but it is estimated that the 2008/9 financial crisis led to a million people contracting chronic health problems

Side effects of lockdown cure for Covid could be worse than the disease itself

Unemployment is at a 5 year high - practical advice if you're currently job hunting (Photo: Shutterstock)

Unemployment is at a 5 year high - practical advice if you're currently job hunt...

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Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak leaves 11 Downing Street, London, ahead of delivering his one-year Spending Review in the House of Commons. PA Photo. Picture date: Wednesday November 25, 2020. See PA story POLITICS Spending. Photo credit should read: Yui Mok/PA Wire

Extra £920 million for Northern Ireland not enough, says Murphy

Chief Medical Officer Dr Michael McBride during the daily media broadcast at Parliament Buildings, Stormont, in Belfast.

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Robin Swann, left, made clear that phoning the doctor is going to outlast the pandemic, while Conor Murphy made a public plea to the Treasury

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Unemployment in NI doubles in two months as coronavirus hits economy

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The economic costs of a deep recession could lead to a rise in the number of disadvantaged people dying in places such as Lower Newtownards Road in east Belfast, above, or the Falls Road in west Belfast

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The list professions that could be boosted by overseas workers includes vets and architects the Migration Advisory Committee reports

Call to expand list of jobs after immigration review on occupation shortages

Parliament Buildings, Stormont

Stormont deadlock could cost £1 billion, say CBI

CBI Northern Ireland chair
Trevor Lockhart pictured, left, with CBI director general Carolyn Fairbairn, Adrian Doran,CBI NI vice-chair, and NI director Angela McGowan at the organisation's annual dinner in Belfast

NI economy to ‘lose £1bn’ without Executive warns CBI

Unemployment continues to fall but economic inactivity is the bigger threat to future prosperity

Employment figures solid but inactivity remains key issue

The number of people out of work is still at a near record low but other issues such as low productivity remain

Unemployment rises but figure remains at near record low

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Regional breakdown of unemployment figures
Unemployment in the regions between May and July was (region, total unemployed, change on quarter, unemployment rate)
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Unemployment falls by 55,000 as average pay grows faster than inflation

The headline figure may be low but the economy faces other historic employment challenges

Slight rise in unemployment but trend still down over year

The unemployment statistics continue to fall besting the rest of the UK, Europe and the Irish Republic in early 2018

Unemployment falls to a record low in early 2018

Morning View

Mixed signals on the economy with some grounds for optimism

Unemployment among women has reached an historic low

Northern Ireland near to '˜full employment'

The unemployment total is low but the number of people classed as economically inactive continues to rise

Unemployment figures in province at lowest in a decade

The province continues to languish behind GB on jobs performance indicators in the absence of an Executive

Political impasse is not helping NI's jobless

Employment is also increasingly being steered towards less secure, part-time working and self-employment

Unemployment numbers fall again in December but rate slows

Jobless figures are down but the economy still trails the rest of the UK

Jobless totals fall for seventh consecutive month

A further sign that the economy is heading in the right direction

Unemployment at lowest level in seven years

Recent investments by firms such as Tullett Prebon show that the province continues to prove attractive to business said Mr Hamilton, picured right with First and Deputy First Ministers Arlene Foster and Martin McGuinness, Tullett Prebon, Group CIO, Luke Barnett,centre, and Invest NI CEO Alastair Hamilton

Unemployment in province falls for fourth consecutive month

Angela McGowan

Brexit warning as jobless figure falls by 600

Historic low

Unemployment blip but downward trend continues

Employment has hit record high

Unemployment down to 1.68m in pre-Budget boost

Frazer McCammond, leader of Democracy First, former Alliance councillor

Frazer McCammond: Others should not give up after the failure of NI21

Unemployment claimant rates have fallen by 10,300 in the last 12 months

Unemployment falls by 800 during January

Unemployment continues to fall

Bell welcomes further decrease in jobless figures

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