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Call to pay interns 'training wage', Financial Times
Interns should be paid a minimum £2.50-an-hour "training wage", bringing them into line with apprentices, the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development urges today.
28/06/2010
An end to being forced out at 65, Daily Telegraph
WORKERS will win the right to stay in their jobs beyond the age of 65 next year. The Government will 'quickly' phase out the default retirement age from April, the Budget revealed. It will save older staff from being forced to retire against their wishes, increase tax revenues from those who keep working and reduce welfare payments.
23/06/2010
Osborne's kill or cure Budget, Financial Times
Most economists welcomed the deficit cut but Labour ministers and many economists said the chancellor was taking extraordinary risks with the recovery. Instead of a Budget to support the recovery, Harriet Harman, acting Labour leader, said 'what we got was a reckless Budget that pulls the rug out from under the economy'.
23/06/2010
Jobs: Fears tough budget could plunge UK back into recession, Guardian
There were warnings tonight that the toughest budget in decades could plunge Britain back into recession, leaving the private sector unable to create the jobs needed to make up for public sector cuts.
23/06/2010
Pay freeze: Unions accuse chancellor of declaring war with wage and pension squeeze, Guardian
John Philpott, chief economic adviser at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, said curbing public sector pay would not improve the public finances a great deal.
23/06/2010
Ministers must motivate quickly to deliver their vision, The Times
When it comes to the new Government's chances of succeeding, I'm a cautious optimist. But it isn't the politics that are foremost in my mind. It's the management challenge.
11/06/2010
Deficit plans will add to job losses, warns economist,? Financial Times
Moves to slash the deficit will stall any recovery in the jobs market and push unemployment up to nearly 3m, one of the country's leading labour economists will warn today.
10/06/2010
Cuts will push jobless to 3m, The Guardian
The government's planned spending squeeze will throw 750,000 public sector workers on to the dole queue and push unemployment close to 3 million for the first time since the early 1990s, a respected thinktank warns today.
10/06/2010