Unemployment has gone up after Christmas as thousands of seasonal workers find themselves back on the dole.
Nothing gets you in the festive spirit quite like working 10 hour days on minimum wage.
Being called in to work at any time, sacked for no apparent reason and turfed out when the turkey goes cold- this is the reality for thousands of precariously employed young workers.
In the face of the bank bailout and the ensuing austerity agenda, decent, secure employment for young people has been sacrificed in the name of economic recovery.
As the bankers take £80 billion just in bonuses, hundreds of thousands of young people, unable to leave home, are forced to scratch out an existence on zero-hours-contracts, lining the pockets of retail tycoons.
That makes me pretty angry.
the latest figures which show that unemployment continues to fall. ... show that unemployment has fallen to 2.6% in Gillingham and Rainham.
ReplyDeletethere was a report in this weeks messenger which highlighted the spike in unemployment following the Christmas period.
DeleteI agree, if you look at an overall trend it is down but I would argue that this is largely down to mass under-employment. The use of zero hours contracts, a flexible workforce of part timers who want full-time hours hides the real picture.
Particularly for young workers the lack of fulltime, secure jobs that pay enough you can realistically live on has devastating consequences. I dont think this state of affairs, effectively writing of a generation to precarious, low paid employment, is acceptable in a civilised society.
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