UK wage growth slows as jobs market cools; Jaguar Land Rover production shutdown extended until next week – business live

UK unemployment rate remains at a four-year high, while JLR production shutdown will last until 24 September, company saysJaguar Land Rover has extended the shutdown of its car production for another week, as it continues to reel from a disruptive cyber attack.JLR says it told its staff, suppliers and partners today that it has extended the current pause in our production until Wednesday 24 September.We have taken this decision as our forensic investigation of the cyber incident continues, and as we consider the different stages of the controlled restart of our global operations, which will take time.We are very sorry for the continued disruption this incident is causing and we will continue to update as the investigation progresses.The 8,000 fall in payroll employment in August was the ninth monthly fall in the ten months since the October Budget. But previous revisions mean that instead of having fallen by 165,000 in total since October, payroll employment is now thought to have fallen by 153,000. Continue reading...

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