Private sector slashing jobs....
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The government said that the private sector would be taking on the hundreds of thousands being made redundant by the public sector, but it seems to me the private sector is consticting faster now than it has over the last four years....
Has the government got any idea of a plan B to stop the unemplyment rate going through the roof?
Has the government got any idea of a plan B to stop the unemplyment rate going through the roof?
Corsair7 said:
The government said that the private sector would be taking on the hundreds of thousands being made redundant by the public sector, but it seems to me the private sector is consticting faster now than it has over the last four years....
Has the government got any idea of a plan B to stop the unemplyment rate going through the roof?
Unemployment fell last quarter.Has the government got any idea of a plan B to stop the unemplyment rate going through the roof?
muffinmenace said:
Where is the private sector slashing jobs? Do you have any links?
News today in our area is that 4 major are cutting jobs - total about 10,000.Walk down most town high streets and shops and businesses are closing, not opening.
Show me any recent 'good news' job announements that havent all mostly been low wage jobs like Tescos etc...
martin84 said:
It didn't really do anything. For instance seasonal work from Christmas will be included in the last quarters figures so I can guarantee this quarters figures will show (when released in a few months) that unemployment rose.
Figures are quarterly, the first quarter runs January - March, so any people who were employed in early December and then sacked in january would impact negatively on the numbers rather than positively as you suggest. Those figures showed:Office of National Statistics said:
The employment rate for those aged from 16 to 64 was 70.4 per cent, up 0.1 on the quarter. There were 29.17 million people in employment aged 16 and over, up 53,000 on the quarter. The unemployment rate was 8.3 per cent of the economically active population, down 0.1 on the quarter. There were 2.65 million unemployed people, down 35,000 on the quarter. This is the first quarterly fall in unemployment since the three months to May 2011. The inactivity rate for those aged from 16 to 64 was 23.1 per cent, down 0.1 on the quarter. There were 9.27 million economically inactive people aged from 16 to 64, down 25,000 on the quarter.
Employed is "working", Unemployed is "Claiming JSA", economically inactive is "Not working, not claiming JSA, but may be claiming other benefits" effectively.http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/lms/labour-market-st...
What the media have been rather naughtily omitting from their figures is that the increase in the unemployed has actually been at least in part due to people being forced out of economic inactivity and into job seeking.
davepoth said:
martin84 said:
It didn't really do anything. For instance seasonal work from Christmas will be included in the last quarters figures so I can guarantee this quarters figures will show (when released in a few months) that unemployment rose.
Figures are quarterly, the first quarter runs January - March. And those figures showed:Office of National Statistics said:
The employment rate for those aged from 16 to 64 was 70.4 per cent, up 0.1 on the quarter. There were 29.17 million people in employment aged 16 and over, up 53,000 on the quarter. The unemployment rate was 8.3 per cent of the economically active population, down 0.1 on the quarter. There were 2.65 million unemployed people, down 35,000 on the quarter. This is the first quarterly fall in unemployment since the three months to May 2011. The inactivity rate for those aged from 16 to 64 was 23.1 per cent, down 0.1 on the quarter. There were 9.27 million economically inactive people aged from 16 to 64, down 25,000 on the quarter.
Employed is "working", Unemployed is "Claiming JSA", economically inactive is "Not working, not claiming JSA, but may be claiming other benefits" effectively.http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/lms/labour-market-st...
What the media have been rather naughtily omitting from their figures is that the increase in the unemployed has actually been at least in part due to people being forced out of economic inactivity and into job seeking.
martin84 said:
Du1point8 said:
don't forget not doing toilet paper degrees as well that were encouraged by labour to hide unemployment.
Labour encouraged people into further education and succeeded?Damn them!
martin84 said:
Where is there actually a degree in texting? I mean seriously, show me.
Birmingham, apparently.http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/student-gets-...
davepoth said:
Apparently being the operative word because despite the headline, what the student actually has is a PhD in English.martin84 said:
wollowizard said:
Would that be the same figures that labour used to hid the 8.5 nillion unemployed?
Also the same methods the Conservative's are still - two years later - using to hide the 8.5 million unemployed 
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