Northern Ireland’s labour market has solidified its strength in the latest data release with the number of people in work climbing to pre-pandemic levels.
The Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) said that the employment rate hit 74.2% in the three months to April, the same as that recorded prior to the Covid-19 pandemic in the last quarter of 2019.
The jobs market continues to defy expectations, shrugging off wider economic jitters triggered by rising interest rates and strong inflation. As well as strong employment rate reading, the unemployment rate has stood around 2.4% for the last few months, again the same level as before the pandemic.
