Employment Programmes

The most recent documents available on this subject are:

Work and Pensions Secretary guilty again of peddling benefit myths, says TUC

Responding to the latest Department for Work and Pensions statistics published today (Wednesday) on the duration of working-age benefits, TUC General Secretary Frances O'Grady said:

24 April 2013
Government should not make up ‘facts' from unpublished data to justify cuts

Commenting on the news today (Friday) that the UK Statistics Authority has rebuked the Department for Work and Pensions for "serious deficiencies" in its handling of worklessness data, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said:

26 November 2010
£30 child tax credit ‘increase' is a £1,500 loss for low income working families

Plans to increase child tax credit by £30 a year in 2011/12 will be dwarfed by childcare cuts of up to £30 a week - or £1,560 a year - according to plans announced in the Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR) today (Tuesday), says the TUC.

20 October 2010
Unemployed need support – not punitive action – to return to work

Commenting on the Government's plans announced today (Tuesday) in the Queen's Speech for a Welfare Reform Bill, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said:

25 May 2010
Future jobs must not be thrown away on early spending cuts, says TUC

Commenting on the latest unemployment figures published today (Wednesday) by the Office for National Statistics, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said:

17 March 2010
Long way to go before UK has a healthy jobs market, warns TUC

Commenting on the latest unemployment figures, published today (Wednesday) by the Office for National Statistics, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said:

20 January 2010



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