UK risks ‘lost generation’ of young workers, business warns

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Business leaders warned on Sunday that the UK risks the creation of a “lost generation” unless the ministers take immediate measures to prevent young people from drifting from the workplace.

British Chambers of Commerce said that employers are increasingly concerned about the official data indicating nearly 1 million people between the ages of 16 and 24, who were not in education, employment, or training (NET), despite the need to enhance new talents as British residents advance.

These numbers, based on the inaccurate office of survey in the national labor market for statistics, are unreliable. But separate data based on tax records also indicates that youth jobs have been more difficult in recent months, as the high costs of employment and the escalation of economic uncertainty over employment.

The new numbers that will be published through the ADZUNA search site on Monday show that the number of vacancies for new graduates decreased to its lowest level in March, even when the total employment began to recover from the recession that followed the high tax owner tax stipulated in the budget of Counselor Rachel Reeves in October.

The general definition was generally defined as born between 1997 and 2012-they confronted both the upper barriers in front of the workforce’s entry and decreasing opportunities with a decrease in the number of vacancies.

A report published by BCC indicated on Sunday to evidence that a quarter of the compiler was that they wanted to work, but they could not because of their mental health.

“Whenever we leave this group of talents for drifting away from the workplace, it becomes difficult for them to engage,” said Havilland. “Unless more comprehensive measures are taken, a full generation is at risk of engaging in society.”

However, companies are also concerned that they are asked to withstand the costs of employment, training and support for young people who see them as a risky bet – while absorbing the effect of a sweeping upgrade of workers’ rights, making it difficult to release new recruits.

The government hopes that social welfare reforms will help last month, including significant cuts on the advantages of deficit and expand support from work to work, young people who suffer from mental health problems to enter the workforce and form a profession.

Prime Minister Sir Charlie Mayfield, the former head of retail store, John Lewis, has assigned ways for companies and government to help patients and disabled people enter and stay at work.

Mayfield, who will publish detailed political recommendations in the fall, said in the report last month that employers can at the present time find it cheaper to replace workers who fell ill from investing in keeping them.

But BCC said that if companies play their role, the government is obligating “avoiding the introduction of an additional cost, risks and restrictions” through workers’ rights reforms, which now pass through parliament.

The lobby group, which represents large numbers of smaller companies, wants the government to spend more on mental health support and more education, and Whitehall administrations “build a more cooperative approach”.

He also called on the ministers to ensure that there is no pressure on social welfare in the budgets of local authorities’ skills, and to provide subsidies to employers to provide workplaces or rent young people with a few qualifications.

Its report said that the tax exemptions for employers who provide health services at the workplace can be accompanied by new requirements for the largest companies publicly on the health judgment.

BCC added that employers should provide a flexible work when needed and the trainers’ managers to give young people more support when they were at risk of leakage.

The Ministry of Labor and Pensions said that the ministers “are determined that there is no young man who is behind the knees” and they were aware of mental health support, a comprehensive reform and a guarantee of vocational training, training or job support for all children between the ages of 18 and 21.

However, BCC noticed in its report that it was not yet clear how this youth guarantee would be delivered or whether the initial eight “Trailblazer” regions will be funded throughout the parliament’s duration.