7 out of 10 new jobs are part-time; We're sick joke says union boss.Seven of every 10 jobs created since the last election are PART-TIME part-time adj. For or during less than the customary or standard time: a part-time job. part . A shocking 572,000 out of the 833,000 total do not pay a full week's wage. And a further 140,000 - 14 per cent - are self-employment, saving firms from funding holidays, sickness benefit Noun 1. sickness benefit - money paid (by the government) to someone who is too ill to work sick benefit Britain, Great Britain, U.K., UK, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most or pensions. The grim revelation of how the Government is eroding full-time work is revealed in new figures out today. GMB GMB (in Britain) General, Municipal and Boilermakers (Trade Union) chief John Edmonds said they made Chancellor Kenneth Clarke's boast that Britain is the "healthy man of Europe" a sick joke. He complained that many part-timers are treated as "second-class workers" and toil for worse terms and conditions than full-timers. Mr Edmonds added: "Kenneth Clarke This article is about Kenneth Clarke, the English politician. For other persons with similar names, see this page. Kenneth Harry Clarke, QC, MP, (born 2 July 1940) is a prominent Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. He is MP for Rushcliffe, near Nottingham. has created a House of Cards house of cards n. pl. houses of cards A flimsy structure, arrangement, or situation that is in danger of collapsing or failing: "The collapse of the rupiah . . . - no firm foundations and the slightest breeze from Wall Street or Frankfurt will blow the whole stack down. The reality of the UK economy is 2.5 million unemployed with seven in every 10 new jobs part-time." The damning study was produced for the GMB by Durham University experts, who analysed official government statistics. Employment Secretary Gillian Shephard maintains that most part-timers do not want full-time work. But furious Labour employment spokesman Ian McCartney Ian McCartney (born 25 April 1951) is a British Labour politician who is the member of Parliament for Makerfield. He was previously the Minister of State for Trade. Up until 28 June 2007 he attended the Cabinet but did not actively vote in it. countered: "Those forced into part-time jobs still have to pay full-time mortgages and full-time bills. "We are all for choice, but the reality is that if you are made redundant it is virtually impossible to get another full-time job. "The only jobs Tory MPs are interested in are the extra part-time directorships and consultancies they pick up to boost their own bank balances." |
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