by Sam | 25 Jul 2014 | Employment, Outsourcing, Politics
The Financial Times (£) has reported that the Government’s much maligned Youth Contract scheme, whereby employers are offered financial incentives to take on young people, is to be stopped earlier than expected amid criticism of delivering poor results. The first year...
by Sam | 21 Jul 2014 | Employment
The Conservative manifesto is to contain measures to stop Union bosses from holding “rolling” strikes and to ensure that a minimum turnout threshold of 50 per cent of the workforce is reached before a walkout, The Telegraph reports. There is currently no turnout...
by Sam | 9 Jun 2014 | Education & Children's Services
A new report published this week by the think tank IPPR says Britain needs stronger and better quality vocational education. The report describes the “focus by successive governments on expanding higher education, with relatively little attention paid to vocational...
by Sam | 16 Apr 2014 | Employment, Politics
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) this morning published its latest monthly labour market statistics, covering the quarter December 2013 – February 2014 . The figures show that unemployment fell by 77,000 on the previous quarter (September – November...
by Sam | 25 Mar 2014 | Employment, General Election 2015, Outsourcing, Politics, Welfare
The Resolution Foundation think tank has called for workers on a zero-hours contract to be given a legal right to a fixed-hours contract after 12 months. The think tank’s report has also called for: a ban on ‘exclusivity clauses’ in zero-hours...
