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Recruitment News Continued
£300m steelworks scheme gets the go-ahead
(Picture: Photo of a builder looking at a set of plans on a building site)
A major new scheme to redevelop the site of the former Ebbw Vale steelworks has been given the all-clear by Blaenau Gwent Council and the Welsh Assembly Government.
The £350m project will include 720 new homes, a hospital, primary school and train station on the 185-acre site. The development will be a major boost to the local economy with the creation of over 2,000 new jobs during the course of the 10-year construction process.
Economy and Transport Minister Ieuan Wyn Jones said: “The speed with which the site is being brought to market is commendable and an outstanding example of public and private sector organisations working together to bring
Government announces strategy to boost employment in Wales
The Department for Work and Pensions has outlined plans to boost the number of people in full employment in Wales.
Work and pensions secretary Peter Hain stated that the department intended to see full employment in the region through a number of reforms announced in a new Welfare Reform Green Paper.
“Ten years of progress has transformed work and opportunity in Britain - today the achievement of full employment and the eradication of child poverty are no longer simply seen as aspirational rallying calls - but as real targets that people expect to be delivered for our generation,” Mr Hain remarked.
Under the new initiative, people facing “severe” barriers to work will receive additional assistance, with the government claiming to have already helped 140,000 more people into jobs in Wales since 1997.
In July, the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills announced plans to assist more than four million people to obtain new skills and develop their existing capabilities over the course of the next three years.
The World Class Skills initiative is aimed at improving funding to enable adults to participate in free training schemes.
And finally… should the dictionary definition of ‘McJob’ be amended?
McDonald’s has launched a petition to get the dictionary definition of a McJob changed.
The Oxford English Dictionary describes a McJob as “an unstimulating low-paid job with few prospects”.
But McDonald’s says this definition is now “out of date and insulting”. Are they sure?
It claims a survey found that 69% of the UK population agree it needs updating.
“The current definition is extremely insulting to the 67,000 people who work for us within the UK and also insulting for everyone else who works in the wider restaurant and tourism sectors,” said McDonald’s senior vice president David Fairhurst.
“It is time for us now to make a stand and get the Oxford English Dictionary to change the definition.”
McDonald’s says that in its staff surveys, 90% of employees agree they are given valuable training that will be of benefit for the rest of their lives.
Key facts
77% - of women prefer a male boss compared to only 60% of men. And only 1 in 10 FTSE 100 companies have a female at the helm
82% - of workers in Wales have been affected by stress at some point during their working lives at a cost of 13 million work days lost every year in the UK (Peninsula)
70% - rise in the number of disabled workers recruited into the workforce during the first six months of 2007, indicating the positive moves by businesses to invest in less advantaged employees (Remploy).
16% of employers are looking to enhance their recruitment process for disabled workers (Harris Interactive)
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