Such a prolonged period of mass
under-employment demonstrates the extent to which the very good headline employment and unemployment figures of recent years mask a substantial underlying shortage of work, the persistence of which takes some gloss off the UK's supposed 'jobs miracle.
The initiatives that are proposed in the budget, I think, carry an unacceptably high risk of harsh, unintended consequences," Nicholson said, "If we're going to make inroads into youth unemployment and
under-employment, we need to do much more than just make changes to income support.
Record levels of
under-employment and the longest real wage squeeze in over a century have left job quality close to a 20-year low, despite the recent rise in employment, according to the TUC's job quality index published today.
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under-employment and wage stagnation, a new report from The Hitachi Foundation identifies the policies and practices that empower businesses to boost competitiveness.
We need ministers to face up to people's concerns about
under-employment and insecure, low-paid work," Ms O'Grady adds.
Known as
under-employment in the UK, this is thought to account for more than a million people in the UK.
Unemployment in the North-east stands at over 130,000 and many more people are working for reduced wages or have been forced into
under-employment and short-time working.
Economic Planning Secretary Arsenio Balisacan said
under-employment in rural areas, security problems in provinces facing insurgencies and warlords, and the falling price of a number of commodities such as sugar were mainly to blame.
He said the informal sector suffers from rampant
under-employment, low productivity and even lower wages.
This government well remembers the
under-employment so rampant at that time, and in this 2013 budget, the Finance Minister has taken some corrective steps necessary to revitalize investor enthusiasm, spur growth, and tame government spending.
Under-employment people who want to work more hours but cannot find it is now at very high levels.
With high
under-employment - currently over 1 million part-time workers in the UK want to work more hours - sanctioning clients who cannot increase their hours seems to be both unworkable and unfair," it said.
