How has the EU labour market been hit by the COVID-19 crisis?

Economic activity, and therefore the labour market across the EU, has been hit by the COVID-19 pandemic.
In the EU, the employment rate of people aged 20-64 was 72.6% in Q4 2020, still below the levels before the COVID-19 crisis (73.2% in Q4 2019) but above the level recorded in Q2 2020 (71.7%), the first quarter affected by COVID-19.