Labour disputes; number of stoppages in progress; UK

3 April 2020

The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic presents a significant challenge to the UK. We are working to ensure that the UK has the vital information needed to respond to the impact of this pandemic on our economy and society.

The effects of the pandemic on ONS capacity and capability during this period means we have reviewed the existing labour market releases. As a result data collection and publication of labour disputes will cease for the foreseeable future.

This action will protect the delivery and quality of our remaining outputs as well as ensuring we can respond to new demands as a direct result of COVID-19. More details about the impact on labour market outputs can be found in our statement.

20 February 2019

A small error occurred in the Labour market statistics time series dataset affecting annual data for series YBUS, YBUT and YBUU only due to a minor processing error. We have corrected this error. You can see all previous versions of this data on the previous versions page. We apologise for any inconvenience.

14 August 2019

A minor processing error has been identified and corrected in the Labour market time series data. The error affected all employment by country of birth and nationality time series data for April to June 2019. The error was due to a processing issue and did not affect any of the release tables or other release products. We apologise for any inconvenience.

14 August 2019

A minor processing error has been identified and corrected in the Labour market time series data. The error affected all employment by country of birth and nationality time series data for April to June 2019. The error was due to a processing issue and did not affect any of the release tables or other release products. We apologise for any inconvenience.

13 September 2019

A minor processing error has been identified and corrected in the Labour market time series data. The error affects some of the historical back-series for each of the following CDIDs: JF6G, LF9L, LF9W, JF6I, MGSP, MGSV, YBTG, LF2P, LF23, LF25, AIXU. The error was due to a processing issue and did not affect any of the release tables or other release products. We apologise for any inconvenience.

13 September 2019

A minor processing error has been identified and corrected in the Labour market time series data. The error affects some of the historical back-series for each of the following CDIDs: JF6G, LF9L, LF9W, JF6I, MGSP, MGSV, YBTG, LF2P, LF23, LF25, AIXU. The error was due to a processing issue and did not affect any of the release tables or other release products. We apologise for any inconvenience.

12 November 2019

A minor error has been identified and corrected in the Labour market time series data. The error affected the August figure for the following CDIDs: LF9L, LF9W. The error did not affect any of the release tables or other release products. We apologise for any inconvenience.

1 February 2021

A minor processing error occurred that caused data to be attached to the incorrect series headings for the following series: FV2A, FV2B, FV2C, FV2D, FV2E, FV2F. This has now been corrected.

12 October 2021

Due to a processing error the vacancies time series data in LMS and UNEM were not updated with the latest data. However data were available in published datasets VACS01, VACS02 and VACS03.

This error has now been rectified. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

14 December 2021

The Public Sector Employment series within the LMS dataset were not updated at 7am on 14 December 2021. The issue has now been resolved. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

16 December 2021

The regional workforce jobs time series within the LMS dataset were not rounded to the nearest thousands on the 14th December 2021 The issue has now been resolved. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

17 March 2022

The regional workforce jobs time series within the LMS dataset were not updated with the latest September 2021 data on 15 March 2022. The December 2021 data were published correctly within the LMS time series dataset. The issues has now been resolved. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

12 September 2023

An issue was spotted with the July 2020 total average weekly earnings data in our EMP and LMS time series data. We have now corrected this issue. The Average Weekly Earnings bulletin and datasets were not impacted by this issue. The ONS apologies for the inconvenience.

17 December 2024

Due to a processing error the vacancies per 100 employee jobs time series data in LMS and UNEM were not updated with the latest data at publication time. However, these data were available in published dataset VACS02. This problem has now been resolved. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.