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CIPD: Redundancies to remain high

Jul 03 2009

The level of redundancies is set to remain high over the second half of 2009, the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) claims.

According to the organisation's RedundancyWatch project, the proportion of firms contacting the CIPD legal helpline for advice on how to lay off staff declined slightly from 19 per cent in the first quarter of 2009 to 18 per cent in the second.

The group claims this indicates a steady rate of redundancies can be expected in the coming months, saying this effect has been experienced previously.

Dr John Philpott, CIPD chief economist and public policy director, told the group's annual employment law conference: 'Our CIPD helpline data offers little comfort that there will be any significant let up in the redundancy rate in the next few months.'

The latest figures from the Office for National Statistics show that UK unemployment has reached a 12-year high of more than 2.2 million.

Commenting, the Confederation of British Industry predicted that unemployment will hit three million in early 2010.

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