Employment

Green for growth

6 October 2011 | Paul O'Brien & David Arnold

Could sustainable energy projects provide a boost to jobs and skills across the country? A survey suggests they could but also highlights a number of obstacles to progress Read more

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New Labour: look back in error

22 September 2011 | Dan Corry

Many people now assume that the Labour government allowed the financial markets to function without regulatory interference as a result of a Faustian pact. But this is simplistic and ignores the enormous amount that Blair and Brown achieved economically Read more

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Open Public Services: what about the workers?

11 September 2011 | Will Tanner

If the government is to modernise public services, it must first modernise the outdated employment culture within them  Read more

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Will the Work Programme work?

22 August 2011 | Ian Mulheirn

Just how viable is the government’s scheme to get the long-term jobless back into work? Read more

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Growth figures: the state we’re in

26 July 2011 | Andrew Sissons

Today’s sluggish growth figures show that the government has got to completely reconsider the role of the state in boosting the economy Read more

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When the going gets tough, by Saralyn Chaloner

13 April 2011 | Saralyn Chaloner

With public sector redundancies announced on a daily basis at present, it comes as no surprise that the latest Ipsos MORI research shows almost three in ten public sector workers (28%) are concerned about unemployment. Read more...

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How progressive are public sector pension reforms? By Carl Emmerson

22 March 2011 | Carl Emmerson

Lord Hutton’s review of public service pensions contains a number of recommendations. Perhaps the three most important for both the taxpayer and the members of these schemes are: Read more...

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Job cuts: the collateral damage, by Andrew Jepp

21 March 2011 | Andrew Jepp

The latest wave of labour market figures released by the Office for National Statistics painted a worrying picture of UK unemployment, revealing a decline of 45,000 jobs in the last quarter of 2010. Overall, 111,000 ‘general government’ jobs were lost in 2010, 1.9% of the total. Perhaps even more concerning is that 66,000 of these were in local government. Read more...

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Wake-up call on childcare, by Vidhya Alakeson

16 March 2011 | Vidhya Alakeson

Speaking at the Liberal Democrat’s Spring Conference, Nick Clegg once again took up the cause of hard working families in Britain – his ‘alarm clock Britain’, the people who want to get up and get on. Read more...

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Ditch the Universal Credit, by Patrick Nolan

31 January 2011 | Patrick Nolan

The coalition government plans to replace all existing working age benefits with a single Universal Credit. Last week the Work and Pensions Committee held an oral evidence session on this proposal. I was asked to appear before the committee and explain Reform’s concerns over these plans. Read more...

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