A proposed program would
guarantee jobs for the unemployed, helping bring the economy to true full - employment status, according to a left - leaning group of academics.
Not exact matches
- A compulsory
jobs guarantee — a paid
job for every young person out of work
for 12 months or more and over 25
unemployed for over two years — which they will be obliged to take or face losing benefits;
«The Tories should back our compulsory
jobs guarantee for young people and the long - term
unemployed.
The opposition's «real
jobs guarantee» would see all those under - 25s
unemployed for one year offered six months of work.
The 34 - year - old Reeves, who is seen by many as a possible future party leader, said that under Labour the long - term
unemployed would not be able to «linger on benefits»
for long periods but would have to take up a
guaranteed job offer or lose their state support.
They should be ensuring school leavers are equipped with the skills they need
for work, including the 50 % who don't choose to go to university; that employers are given more control over the funding
for training and skills; and by ensuring that young people who have been
unemployed for longer than a year are
guaranteed a
job - so that no young person is allowed to fall completely out of touch with the world of work.
And this is why the centrepiece and foundation stone of Labour's economic plan is a compulsory
jobs guarantee for young people and the long term
unemployed.
Mr Balls, as part of his push to highlight policies during his campaign, will today call
for a new
guarantee to ensure that anyone
unemployed for more than 18 months is given a
job or work placement.
The Labour Party under Ed Miliband subsequently went into the 2015 general election with a promise to implement an even more limited
Job Guarantee (specifically, part time
jobs with
guaranteed training included
for long - term
unemployed youth) if elected; [12] however, they lost the election.
That this House declines to give a Second Reading to the Welfare Benefits Up - rating Bill because it fails to address the reasons why the cost of benefits is exceeding the Government's plans; notes that the Resolution Foundation has calculated that 68 per cent of households affected by these measures are in work and that figures from the Institute
for Fiscal Studies show that all the measures announced in the Autumn Statement, including those in the Bill, will mean a single - earner family with children on average will be # 534 worse off by 2015; further notes that the Bill does not include anything to remedy the deficiencies in the Government's work programme or the slipped timetable
for universal credit; believes that a comprehensive plan to reduce the benefits bill must include measures to create economic growth and help the 129,400 adults over the age of 25 out of work
for 24 months or more, but that the Bill does not do so; further believes that the Bill should introduce a compulsory
jobs guarantee, which would give long - term
unemployed adults a
job they would have to take up or lose benefits, funded by limiting tax relief on pension contributions
for people earning over # 150,000 to 20 per cent; and further believes that the proposals in the Bill are unfair when the additional rate of income tax is being reduced, which will result in those earning over a million pounds per year receiving an average tax cut of over # 100,000 a year.
introduce a
jobs guarantee for young
unemployed after 1 year and
for others after 2 years.
This saving had been earmarked to fund a «
jobs guarantee»
for the young
unemployed, but Labour sources admit the falling number of jobless young people means this would cost less than expected.
There are just over 3 million people
unemployed in Italy and who are actively seeking work making it almost
guaranteed you will face stiff opposition with every
job you apply
for.