Sentences with phrase «lost public sector jobs»

Why black workers lost public sector jobs at higher rates than other groups during the Great Recession is unclear.

Not exact matches

The sinking stone dragging down public sector employment was the federal government, which lost 14,000 jobs last month, for a total of 45,000 positions gone since February.

Those jobs lost in the public sector have been primarily in mid and higher - wage positions, according to Ms. Bernhardt's analysis.

Ordinary voters will only be alarmed if they think Tory policy is actually more destructive rather than being worried if a few nurses and policemen lose their jobs (they're far more likely to worry about their own jobs and security than that of public sector workers).

Women are bearing the brunt of the government's austerity drive in the public sector, according to figures showing that twice as many women as men have lost jobs in local government since 2010.

Three quarters of a million public - sector workers could lose their jobs as a result of the Government's Comprehensive Spending Review

«Behind the headline figures long - term unemployment actually came down in the quarterly figures, and very importantly the number of new jobs created in the private sector outstripped the number of jobs lost in the public sector,» Mr Clegg told MPs.

The Budget cuts will cause a huge hike in unemployment next year as the public sector loses at least 600,000 jobs.

There are particular concerns about where the private sector jobs will come from for the 490,000 public - sector workers who are expected to lose their jobs.

There is «apparently no credible plan» as to how to replace the 490,000 public - sector jobs set to be lost, he said at Monday's CBI conference, in his first speech to business leaders since he was elected as party leader last month.

50 % fear that «in a few years» time teachers and other public sector employees will be losing their jobs if they don't support gay marriage».

His claim that unemployment will fall rather than rise in the course of this Parliament is based on the OBR assessment, rapidly rushed out to give ammunition to contest the anticipated Harman attack (incidentally providing the first suspicions about the OBR's objectivity), that whilst 600,000 public sector jobs will be lost by 2015 - 6 and a similar figure (though unspecified) in the private sector as a result of the public spending cuts, some 2.5 m jobs will be created over the same period in the private sector.

We've lost 100,000 jobs in the public sector and five times that many created in the private sector, he adds.

Donohue pointed out that since 2010, nearly 60,000 public sector jobs have been lost, eroding services and stalling the state's economic recovery.

Public sector pay While unveiling his emergency budget the chancellor said public sector workers must «share the burden» of reducing spending and warned that unless action was taken more jobs would bePublic sector pay While unveiling his emergency budget the chancellor said public sector workers must «share the burden» of reducing spending and warned that unless action was taken more jobs would bepublic sector workers must «share the burden» of reducing spending and warned that unless action was taken more jobs would be lost.

With ministers banking on rapid private sector growth to replace the estimated 490,000 public sector jobs expected to be lost, the Prime Minister backed a world of «unprecedented economic change» in which small start - up companies can become global giants in a matter of years.

John Mann, a Labour MP, has just been asking how the average salaries of the new private sector jobs that the OBR expects to be created will compare with the average salaries of those public sector jobs expected to be lost.

All the signs are there for an econoic meltdown - falling retail sales, a slaughter of public sector jobs, a tidal wave of construction industry job loses about to break, it will be Eire Take II by the autumn and the coalition will go the way of Fianna Fail.

It is never cause for celebration when someone loses a job, regardless of whether it is in the private or public sector.

The OBR says more public sector workers will lose their jobs under David Cameron's government, and it says much of the expected increase in overall employment would have occurred under Labour as well.

So George Osborne's programme does lead to more public sector workers losing their jobs but only by 30,000 over the entire time period.

Manchester has seen the hardest hit in job losses and redundancies within the public sector with 15,000 jobs lost or are under threat.