FSB: Extend Work Trials to create extra jobs
Aug 16 2011
More needs to be done to get people back into employment, says the FSB
The Federation of Small Businesses is calling on the government to extend Work Trials to help create an extra 46,000 jobs.
With around 1.64 million people having been out of work for up to one year and unemployment currently standing at 2.45 million, the FSB believes the government needs to do more to get people back into employment.
Work Trials are voluntary programmes that allow employers and employees to try a role before taking on a permanent position within the business. Currently, Work Trials are available to those who have been on Job Seekers Allowance for at least six months.
The lobbying group's ‘Voice of Small Business' survey panel shows that nearly a quarter (23 per cent) of small firms think Work Trials would act as an incentive to taking on staff.
It is calling on the government to extend Work Trials by making them available from the first day someone claims Jobseekers Allowance.
FSB national chairman John Walker says, ‘Extending Work Trials could help to create an extra 46,000 much-needed jobs and help people get back into work at such a difficult time, so the FSB is urging the government to extend this very straightforward scheme from the first day someone signs on.
‘The government simply must do more if it wants the private sector to pick up the slack from public sector cuts. This would be a good start in helping to tackle unemployment.’
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