The number of workers on company payrolls increased in October after the end of the furlough scheme.
Official data suggests the end of furlough did not lead to an increase in unemployment in Northern Ireland.
Furloughed workers were still on company payrolls so if the furlough had ended badly payroll numbers would have been expected to fall.The Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency said the number of payrolled workers in October was 768,200, an increase of 0.5% over the month and 4.4% over the year.
That does not mean that nobody lost their job at the end of the furlough but that the economy created more jobs than were lost.The rolling 12-month total of proposed redundancies is at its lowest since summer 2019 and claimant count unemployment also decreased for the eight consecutive month.
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