Increase in UK unemployment may see the creation of
a lost
generation
Figures published last week by the Office for
National Statistics showed the rise in people out of work increased
by 49,000 in three months to November.
Kevin Green, the Recruitment and Employment
Confederation said “The overall increase in unemployment is in line
with the REC’s own forecasts.
What is particularly concerning about the
figures is the growth of 32,000 in the number of 16 to 24 year olds
not in work which has now hit an all-time high of 951,000. The UK
is in serious danger of creating a lost generation of young people
who are not in work, training or education.
“The REC’s Youth Employment Taskforce made
many robust recommendations towards the end of last year, one of
these being our call to Government to stimulate and incentivise
private sector employers to hire young people.
This comes after the government declared
itself ‘pro business’, ‘pro growth’ and ‘pro jobs’ which should
make this a top priority for the sake of the long term health of
the UK economy. Yet the UK is performing strongly against its EU
counterparts, with the EU average of unemployed at 9.2 per
cent.
Paul Kenny, general secretary of the GMB
union, said: "These figures show what a dismally bleak landscape
there is for the jobless and their families…, particularly for the
young workers struggling to get into the labour market.
"If, as seems likely, the financial elite who
caused this recession and its attendant havoc resume skimming their
multimillion bonuses, anger will boil over.
"In the forthcoming pre-budget report the
Government must not fail to take pre-emptive action to stop the
financial elite adding insult to injury to those who are paying the
price for their recklessness."
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