Third Age Employment Network - Archived News 1st Quarter 2005

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Archived News 1st Quarter 2005

Posted March 2005
	BoND Delayed by 6 Months Extra £38 million Found For Young Persons’ Apprenticeships UK Skills Shortages Hit 12 year High ‘Opportunity Age’ Select Committee Recommends Ending Working Time Opt Out Labour Pledges To Sort Out Public Holiday Entitlement The New Adult Skills White Paper Adult Apprenticeships 80% of New Public Sector Jobs in Health & Education Over 60s in the Workforce Predicted To Double Budget Fails to Excite But Woos the Grey Vote – and Others Latest Employment Figures Figures At Last on New Deal 50+ New Proposals to Tackle Sex Discrimination At Work G8 Employment Ministers Compare Notes on Their Ageing Populations The Role of ‘Social Capital’ in Finding A Job Women And Work Commission Delivers Interim Report
Posted February 2005
	Equality Bill Published One Third Expecting to Change Jobs Ageism Impacts All Ages Minimum Wage Rises Announced Financial Assistance Scheme Offers Small Pension Comfort To Some Tories Launch Manifesto For Older People Half Of All New Jobs in The Public Sector. Sole Employees To Save On Insurance Rutherford Case Goes To The House of Lords Apprenticeships Face Funding Crisis Big Rise In Number of Employers Struggling To Find Skilled Workers Redundancy Rights For Workers Over 65 IB Benefit Changes Clarification Employers Shore Up Their Final Salary Pensions Schemes
Posted January 2005
	Tories Pledge To Axe The LSCs Employers Sticking Their Heads in The Sand Over Age Laws IOD Breaks Ranks On Compulsory Retirement Labour’s Big Idea : Employment Opportunity For All IB Reform Proposals Unveiled Unions Facing Extinction Call Centres Still Not Getting The Message Pathways To Work Programme Extension Majority of Mortgage Holders Needing To Work On Minimum Wage May, Or May Not, Be Damaging Businesses Labour Market Pressures Expected To Ease Latest Employment Figures New Support Group For IT Sector Victims of Ageism Yet Another ‘Skills’ White Paper On The Way New Campaign To Attract Potential Social Care Workers Job Cuts Forecast For Financial Services Industry Public Sector Pension Reform Proposals Stir Up Unions The City’s Pay Gulf New Employment Rate Objective Requires 2.8 million New Jobs 1/3rd of Work Based Learning Providers ‘Inadequate’

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