#retail-employment

#retail-employment

American Christmas LLC, which creates elaborate holiday installations for commercial properties such as New York's Rockefeller Center and Radio City Music Hall, plans to hire 220 temporary workers and is ramping up recruitment nearly two months later than usual, CEO Dan Casterella said. Last year, the company took on 300 people during its busy period.

Today's figures are a stark warning: retail jobs have plunged to a record low with 97,000 jobs lost over the last year, and almost 400,000 lost over the last decade. The rising cost of NICs and NLW, together costing the industry over £5 billion this year, are hitting retail employment hard. And worse could be yet to come, with the Employment Rights Bill having a "materially negative impact on employment" according to the OBR.