Dr John Philpott, Chief Economic Adviser at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) comments as follows on official labour market statistics published earlier today by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) which update the Labour Force Survey measures of employment, unemployment and economic inactivity to the quarterly period March-May 2010, the count of people unemployed and claiming Jobseekerís Allowance to June 2010, and average weekly earnings for May 2010