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Joanne Frew, head of employment at DWF, comments on the ONS employment figures. She said:

It is no secret that 2020 has presented challenge after challenge for businesses in every industry.

In his Spending Review yesterday the Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, highlighted a disparity between public sector and private sector wages, adding he "cannot justify a significant, across-the-board" pay increase for all public sector workers in the circumstances.

Ben Willmott, Head of Public Policy for the CIPD, the professional body for HR and people development, has responded to the Chancellor's Spending Review.

Following the news that Chancellor Rishi Sunak will announce a £4.6bn package to help the unemployed back to work in the Spending Review, please find a reactive comment from Mariano Mamertino, Senior Economist for EMEA at LinkedIn, below:

Neil Carberry, Chief Executive of the Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC), commented:

A proposal to ban temporary staff from moving between care homes would be catastrophic and could result in more hospital admissions.

The first lockdown undoubtedly had a huge impact on the UK economy and workforce.

Unemployment though low by historic standards at 4.8%, rose sharply by 0.7 percentage points on the quarter. Redundancies reached a record high of 314,000 suggesting that unemployment will continue to rise over the winter.

Neil Carberry, Chief Executive of the Recruitment and Employment Confederation said:

By Leigh Anderson, Managing Director, Bis Henderson Recruitment

Neil Pattison, Director at Caterer.com, the UK hospitality industry job board:

Janine Chamberlin, Senior Director at LinkedIn, said:

The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) has been extended further to March 2021 following the Chancellor's announcement. The CJRS will now remain open for a further five months until the end of March 2021. Joanne Frew, head of employment practice at legal business DWF, commented:

Lee Biggins, founder and CEO of CV-Library comments: