Nicola Smith
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Policy at the TUC.
Time for Amazon to get around the table and start talking to their workforce.
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Paul Nowak
about 1 year ago
Good to host
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governor Andrew Bailey at Congress House today. We shared with him union views on the importance of higher pay and secure work for boosting living standards and growth.
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Stephen Evans
about 1 year ago
Ahead of the Get Britain Working White Paper, here's 5 things you need to know. 1. 80% employment rate would mean 1.5-2.5m more people in work. Other countries have done it & we can get there by narrowing gaps between groups. 3.5m out of work but want a job.
learningandwork.org.uk/resources/re...
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We have a neon penguin up in the kitchen and I have realised I am the 11%
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This shows why boosting job quality matters so much - for families and life chances and also for our economy
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Interesting from OECD on Spanish labour market reform - large falls in use of temporary contracts achieved alongside high employment rates
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Reviving Broadly Shared Productivity Growth in Spain
Spain has been confronted with weak wage and productivity growth for several decades. This report provides an overview of the role that labour market policies as well as other policies can play in rev...
https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/reviving-broadly-shared-productivity-growth-in-spain_34061b21-en.html
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A government trying to level the playing field & repair our public services… Or the defenders of the status quo who have nothing to lose but their tax breaks? I know whose side I’m on.
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Testament to the incredible work of teaching and teaching support staff across our schools.
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With UK GDP only up 0.1 per cent in Q3, this would also suggest that Budget decisions to invest in growth were the right ones
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Paul Krugman
over 1 year ago
Oh, forgot to include the "policy didn't cause inflation" chart 5/
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This would be good news for jobs market and our wider economic health (although higher rates of population ill health still v concerning)
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What are your views on what this might mean for inflation debate? Less capacity lost than some have feared?
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Pause for thought before using this morning's inflation data as evidence of anything other than changes in energy prices (which are regulated with a price cap). Across wider measures inflation is low, with prices rising at below 2 per cent. Stronger growth must remain the priority.
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