Retailers continue to invest in staff
Posted on in Business News , Cycles News
The British Retail Consortium (BRC) Retail Employment Monitor (REM) indicates that 12% of retailers intend to increase staffing levels in the next three months.
Helen Dickinson, director general of the BRC, said: "The equivalent number of full-time jobs remained more or less static in March with a slight fall of 0.1% recorded when compared with the same period last year.
"More conspicuous was how employment in non-food retail continued to recover. Not only were more hours worked across the industry but more people were working in an industry that's busy meeting higher levels of demand.
"This performance is a result of an increasingly benign economic environment and a further sign that retailers feel more confident about investing for the future. That's to be welcomed after an extremely tough trading period in recent years."
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