Tag Archives: work

Making work pay: Balls announces compulsory jobs guarantee for long-term unemployed

Ed Balls today set out plans for a compulsory jobs guarantee for the long-term unemployed – ensuring there is a job for every adult who is long-term unemployed.

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Is DFID allergic to Decent Work?

Nearly everyone agrees a decent job is the best way for someone to escape poverty. So why is the Dept. for International Development doing so little to help?

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Resolution Foundation: Tax and benefit system still not doing enough to make work pay

A new Resolution Foundation report today highlights how the present system of redistribution through taxation and welfare is inefficient and could be reformed.

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A4e’s fall from grace has been in the pipeline for two years

Fiona MacTaggart writes about the two years she’s spent fighting against A4e and their shoddy practices; Now that it’s all blown up, what’s next?

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Work experience is now voluntary, but the government still forces unpaid work

Alex Hern celebrates a minor victory over workfare, but warns that there is more to fight for in the future.

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Workfare versus compulsory work: When is it right and wrong to mandate labour?

Richard Exell looks at the tricky issues dividing workfare (bad) from mandating paid work (good). Is there a line that can be drawn?

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Boris Johnson’s words show he doesn’t care about young people

Val Shawcross attacks Boris Johnson over his astonishingly heartless comments about the job prospects for young people.

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“The PM is wrong: the labour market is very weak”

Richard Exell runs through the latest figures from the labour market, and finds that “it is very weak and the prospects for unemployed people are very poor.”

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A 21-hour working week is long overdue

Sarah Lyall argues that a 21 hour working week would have positive effects above and beyond the time spent not working.

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How well does Boris do on apprenticeships?

The Green Party’s Darren Johnson AM argues that apprenticeships need to be rehauled, and that London could show the rest of the country how to do it.

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