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Unemployment rate plunges as employers add record jobs post-lockdown
Employers add twice as many jobs as predicted in November, taking unemployment rate down to 4.6%
Australia’s jobless rate plunged in November as locked down states opened up, with employers defying expectations to add a record number of jobs.
Last month, the unemployment rate came in at 4.6%, a 0.6 percentage point improvement on the October figures, with 366,100 jobs added, the Australian Bureau of Statistics said. Economists had predicted a 5% rate and about 200,000 new jobs for the month.
Read the original article at The Guardian