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  • Thu. Nov 21st, 2024

Unemployment leaps in April as coronavirus shuts swathes of services

Unemployment leaps in April as coronavirus shuts swathes of services

Australia’s joblessness rate has actually published its steepest month-to-month rise on record, with 594,300 people losing their jobs in April as restrictions to limit coronavirus shut countless companies and affected a lot more.

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  • Almost 600,000 individuals lost their tasks last month, while an additional 600,000 saw their working hours cut down
  • Unemployment leapt 1 percentage indicate 6.2 per cent, which would have been much even worse except that many people did not try to find work
  • In all, the ABS said 2.7 million Australians either lost their task, had the

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