Brown to do summit about UK jobs.

January 12th, 2009 by admin | Filed under Daily News, Employment, Recession, Retail, UK Small Business, UK employment.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown, looking into a very bleak 2009 has come up with a very original plan to create jobs.

Brown’s idea already titled the “golden boarding pass” is to be announced at the forthcoming summit to be held at the Science Museum in London. The summit is due to be attended by leaders in the world of business and finance world as well as key players in the UK Trade Unions.

With UK unemployment figures creeping towards the two million mark, the Labour Government is pulling out all of the stops to halt the flow before it reaches the two million mark. The undoubted jewel in the crown of Brown’s original ideas is to offer employers a subsidy of £2,500 for every new employee that they take on and agree to retrain.

The “golden boarding pass” is just one of a flotilla of “innovative ideas” that the Prime Minister and his team at the Ministry of Employment have come up with to create employment through the recession which the UK is deeply and officially bogged down in.

Predictions for 2009 may be bad, say economic forecasters, but unless someone grabs the bull by the horns, and soon, 2010 will be even worse. Some economists believe that unemployment figures could be close to three million by summer 2010.

Prime Minister Brown has organised the summit to announce several plans that he and his team have created to stimulate the economy, and in areas where they have never ventured before. Their programme is designed to renew growth and create employment in such sectors as environmental technology, sophisticated manufacturing technology veering towards nanotechnology as well as in the public sector. In the public sector particular attention will be paid to the sadly understaffed and underfinanced areas of health care and education.

During the course of the summit, Work and Pensions Secretary James Purnell is expected to announce details of a £500m scheme designed to help people who have been unemployed for more than six months to re-enter the work face with the aid of subsidies and generous retraining grants for employers in both the public and private sectors. .