Unemployment levels have been one of the most talked about topics in the employment industry over recent years. Following the recession, unemployment levels rose to over 2.68 million which was the highest they have been since 1993. This caused wide spread panic and was a massive strain on the benefits system. Since then, the government have been trying to encourage employers and employees to try and make it easier for the public to become employed. They have offered grants to businesses to take on new employees, offered further education and on the job training packages and lowered benefits to make it more appealing for people to return to work.
Since these changes, the unemployment levels have been dropping and in August 2014 it dropped down to 1.97 million, the first time it has been below 2 million since 2008.
The statistics are obviously going in the right direction, and this is encouraging news. It will be great to see what the next quarter brings.