The Conservatives’ plan to raise the state pension age to 66 will make youth unemployment worse, a leading economist has...
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Up to one in 10 men will be unemployed by 2010 as male employment plummets towards a new low, the...
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Youth unemployment could top one million when official figures are published later this week, experts have warned.The data for August...
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Redundancy predictions made by employers at the start of the year fell well short of the actual number of... -
Youth unemployment came under the spotlight at this week’s Conservative Party Conference. Personnel Today spoke to leading employer groups and HR directors...
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Conservative youth unemployment plans for private providers will cause ‘confusion’
by Kat Bakerby Kat BakerConservative plans to place private providers in direct competition with Jobcentre Plus to help the young unemployed back to work...
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The Conservatives will take work away from Jobcentre Plus and instead allow private providers to offer personalised support to job...
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The Ministry of Defence’s HR chief has echoed calls from his Whitehall peers to make the public sector HR function...
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Conservative Party Conference: Train to Gain will not be scrapped, say Tories
by Kat Bakerby Kat BakerTrain to Gain will not be scrapped, but its budget will be refocused to help the young unemployed, the Conservatives...
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The jobs market is continuing to show signs of improvement after permanent placements rose for the second month in a...
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Conservative Party Conference: Tories to slash Whitehall jobs and freeze public sector pay
by Kat Bakerby Kat BakerThe Conservatives would use job cuts to slash the cost of Whitehall by one-third over the next parliament, shadow chancellor...
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The Conservatives have outlined their ‘Get Britain Working’ scheme, which will replace the government’s flagship Flexible New Deal programme.
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The Conservatives will announce plans to scrap the New Deal and Train to Gain programmes in a bid to tackle...
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The Labour Party Conference this week saw employment issues take centre stage with new policies on tackling unemployment, pension reforms...