Unheeded by most, Tony Woodley of the T&G Unite is still crying in the wilderness, and what a plan he has got: "Our priority must be using that public money to save jobs and skills, not to fund redundancy". By public money, he means money extorted from the productive parts of the economy, I think. "We desperately need to see creative, strategic action to save jobs, such as job sharing and ...

Local health-care workers are to be offered voluntary redundancy and early retirement packages to save the health service money

“Tax pays for new jobs“. Well, yes, no one doubts that the spending of tax money creates jobs. Even new jobs. Where it gets more complex is that similarly no one (umm, no one actually clued in this is) doubts that the raising of taxes kills jobs, both new and old. If we’re to concern ourselves solely with

Loren Thompson is making sense with this. An especially troubling aspect of the present situation is that the cuts mandated by the Budget Control Act to reduce deficits could grow bigger if the president’s jobs bill passes, because the special committee would need to find additional savings to cover the price-tag for its package of tax changes and targeted spending. So in the current environ...

I loathe the smell of burning money in the morning. All that borrowing, going straight into the fire of local government bureaucracy. MFI may go broke this week, costing thousands of jobs, but there’s 575 new jobs in government, all...

Britain's onerous health and safety laws are stifling enterprise and may have pushed up unemployment, the peer appointed to review the legislation warned last night.

Nag, nag, nag: If you click on that, you will see that this snap was snapped in a hardware store. A randomly selected one, as it happens, near to where I live. I've said it before, and I'll say it again, health and safety is, among other things, a business, and therefore an interest. If it diminished, money would be lost, money which knows it would be lost and which would therefore speak...

Government jobs | Guardian Jobs "page 1". Almost every company I know in the economically-productive sector of the economy has a hiring and/or salaries freeze (usually imposed after making redundancies and/or renegotiating salaries and benefits). Not so the public sector. At a time when the state payroll should be slashed...

A few months ago, in a bid to look as if she was tough on bankers, Harriet Harmon insisted Sir Fred Goodwin would not be allowed to keep his pension. You have to ask will Labour be equally outraged at the news that between them Neil and Glenys Kinnock are drawing six state pensions. These pensions of course are aside from the money the pair made in their various jobs, Glenys still raking it in tha...

 part of the problem facing the world is that there are major policy externalities. My fiscal stimulus helps your economy, by increasing your exports — but you don’t share in my addition to government debt.Protecting British Jobs with British Tax payers money  is the only way to get the internal econemy working in the short term, thats is British Tax payers money for hour...