We're approaching the end of party conference season, with just Tory leader David Cameron's big speech to come. Voters are now a little bit more clued up on what the three main political parties would offer them if they are victorious in next year's General Election.
With that in mind, I've been thinking about how some their policies might affect jobseekers and the jobs market. How would you vote if you were just voting as a jobseeker?
We all know it's very grim out there at the moment, with many more candidates than there are jobs. So when we do start to see green shoots of recovery, how would the situation improve under Labour, the Conservatives or the Lib Dems?
All parties have made boosting the economy a key policy, and central to which is tackling unemployment, creating new jobs and providing incentives to businesses to recruit staff.
Labour
With that in mind, I've been thinking about how some their policies might affect jobseekers and the jobs market. How would you vote if you were just voting as a jobseeker?
We all know it's very grim out there at the moment, with many more candidates than there are jobs. So when we do start to see green shoots of recovery, how would the situation improve under Labour, the Conservatives or the Lib Dems?
All parties have made boosting the economy a key policy, and central to which is tackling unemployment, creating new jobs and providing incentives to businesses to recruit staff.
Labour
- National minimum wage to be raised in each of next five years
- Guaranteed work or training for 18-24 year-olds that have been unemployed for more than a year
- New strategy to help individuals learn new skills
- Trebling number of jobs created through Local Employment Partnerships scheme, which helps long-term unemployed back into work, with new focus on older workers
- 20,000 new 'green' internships and work placements
- Childcare vouchers will lose tax relief with money saved funding free childcare for children from poorest families. Means some employers may scrap vouchers altogether.
- Flagship 'Get Britain Working' scheme would help young people after six months unemployed
- New 'Work Pairing' programme to match teenagers with small traders for work experience
- 300,000 additional apprenticeship and training places
- Freeze public sector pay, except for those earning less than £18,000 a year
- New businesses will pay no tax on the first 10 workers they hire during the first two years of a Conservative government - could create up to 60,000 jobs
- State pension age to be raised to 66 in 2016
- 70,000 'green' jobs to be created.
- Public sector pay freeze
- Annual tax on homes worth £1m or more to help low-paid workers
- Cut income tax for workers on low and middle incomes
- Create new jobs through capital spending on projects like new affordable homes
- Introduce a universal entitlement to free childcare for all children from 18 months to when they start school.
Hi Mike
Thanks for the summary!! Interesting convergence of policies in response to hard times. The conservatives actually sound like a good bet...Never thought I'd say that!
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