But two industries have bucked the trend: Health care and social assistance, the latter of which comprises services like child care and counseling, economists told ABC News. If not for job growth in those two sectors, the labor market would have suffered net job losses over the past three months.

The UK jobs market has continued to cool as vacancies fell and the number of people on payrolls dropped, the latest official figures suggest. Job openings fell by 5.8% to 718,000 between May to July across nearly all industries,

Britain's jobs market has weakened further, official data showed, with employment falling for a sixth month and vacancies dropping again but wage growth stayed strong, underscoring why the Bank of England is so cautious about cutting interest rates.