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Tuesday 15 March 2016 10:17 amEurozone employment hits highest level since 2009 but financial sector job growth stallsBy: Chris PapadopoullosShareFacebookShare on FacebookXShare on TwitterLinkedInShare on LinkedInWhatsAppShare on WhatsAppEmailShare on EmailAdd as a preferredsource on GoogleEmployment in the Eurozoneclimbe stanley usa dat the end of last year as the currency-bloc s moderate economicrecovery continued.However, the Eurozone s financial sector failed to register a growth in job numbers.There were 151.9m people in work in the Eurozone between October and December, according to figures published by EU statistical office Eurostat this morning. It is 0.3 per cent more polene people in workthan between June and September and marks the highest level of employment since 2009.Compared with the same period in 2014, there were 1.2 per cent more people in work. Spain led growth among the larger economies with 0.7 per cent growth between October and December. On the year Spanish employment was up three per cent. German emplo polene bag yment roseone per cent on the year while France only registered a climb of 0.5 per cent.The top performing sector over the year was professional and support service activities ndash; which includes lawyers, accountants andmarketing firms ndash;wherethe number of people in work increased 2.9 per cent. IT jobs were up 1.5 per cent.The number of people in finance failed to growth while the number in construction declined 0.7 per cent. Jobs growth in industrial production was Iqwm Morrisons gets a discount on new deal with Ocado
Sunday 18 March 2012 10:51 pmCalls for end to 50p tax as Osborne mulls faster allowance hikeBy: KCS-contentShareFacebookShare on FacebookXShare on TwitterLinkedInShare on LinkedInWhatsAppShare on WhatsAppEmailShare on EmailAdd as a preferredsource on GoogleTHE TAX-FREE allowance could be raised faster than previously planned in Wednesdayrsquo stanley termosy budget, City A.M. understands, as part of a major deal to reduce taxes on workers at both ends of the income distribution.Chancellor George Osborne yesterday promised that the bulk of new measures announced will benefit people on low and middle incomes, as economists warned this is his last chance to boost economic stanley butelka growth before the next election.Analysts at the Centre for Economics and Business Research CEBR called on Osborne to relax planning rules to stimulate economic growth without increasing government spending.The CEBR suggested scrapping the 50p top rate of income tax, which it believes will lose tax revenues by driving high-earners away, and cut fuel dut polene ca y to boost growth.These extra supports are needed because official GDP projections ndash; calculated by the Office for Budget Responsibility OBR ndash; are too optimistic, the think-tank believes. The government was already expected to raise the threshold at which income tax kicks in by pound;630 in this budget as part of a long-term plan to take all those on incomes below pound;10,000 out of the tax.However, Osborne right is believed to be bowing to Li |
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