£1 million boost for jobs
Saturday 26th June 2010, 3:00PM BST.
Education Minister James Reed.
ALMOST £1 million is to be injected into schemes to help Islanders to find work in the wake of the recession.
The money, from a £44 million States fund launched last year to create and safeguard jobs during the downturn, will be used to enable the Advance to Work scheme to run until at least September next year.
Under the scheme, which was launched last September, unemployed 16- to 19-year-olds receive training as well as unpaid work experience to help them to improve their chances of finding a job.
The funding will also be used to launch a scheme to enable unemployed Islanders aged over 20 to gain training and work experience.
Education Minister James Reed said: ‘The Advance to Work scheme has been a great success and this additional funding will allow a programme to be extended to an older age-group.
‘I sincerely hope that those seeking work will take advantage of the opportunity to improve their skills and, as a result, will have a better chance of gaining full-time employment.’
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And in a year can we please have a full analysis of how many of these skills have been successfully used to enable these youngsters to find full time work and how much this has saved the taxpayer.
Admirable if it works but we never seem to get the results – only the headlines!
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I don’t like what I am going to say but…
VAT (or GST) is the only tax which can affect the rich. You can be rich, rich enough to not to have any income and you simply do not pay any income tax. But even if you don’t have any income you are paying VAT (or GST) with every single purchase.
as I said I don’t loke this but lets introduce 20% VAT on EVERYTHING and drop income tax for income less than 100k. Everyone will be paying the same tax, and hated rich will be paying 40%
BTW Why most of you people hate rich ones ? Why do you think that ability to earn and collect some more money than average Joe is the only good reason to take away this money in form of extra taxes ? Rich ones are not the ones who make all of us to pay more in taxes – obviously poor (and very often lazy) ones drain our pockets.
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the other week he was trying to sack the lifeguards make up your mind mr reed
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“improve their chances of finding a job” – when will these politicians wake up and realise that all this lip service just proves how out of touch with reality they really are, perhaps Mr Reed can tell us all how he will create the 1000+ jobs needed at the end of this scheme! ! ! !
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If you capped the number of EU people who will work for such a low wage prehaps than the islands youth would get a foot on the ladder, As it stands a EU person with skills stands a better chance of work than our Jersey born children,
We have highlands college so why throw one million
down the drain,
Its a world recession wake up.
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@Rob: your analysis is wrong. The problem is that Jersey pays well, particularly for the young: kids of 17 can expect full minimum wage of £6.20/hr (and often more). By contrast, in the UK the minimum wage for under 18s is £3.57/hr.
Slamming the door and imposing quotas would be an admission that your Jersey born children are too lazy to get off their fat derrieres and do enough real work to be competitive.
My daughter (17, still at school) works occasional shifts as a chambermaid in a hotel. She’s the only Jersey kid thus far who’s shown she can stand the pace of the work… the Poles and Portuguese can do it day-in, day-out.
Oh, and I’m just waiting to see the discriminatory small print added that says you have to have 5 years’ residence to get on the scheme…
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I can not believe the States are to spend 1 million of hard working tax payers cash on schemes to motivate the unemployed. There are plenty of streets around St. Helier which could be cleaned up and the bins overflowing in residential areas.
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6, Mac
Ditto
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7. There is several hundred tons of plastic bages, plastic bottles, beerr/drink cans, takeaway containers strewn all over the countryside – the could pick up some of that as well.
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At very little cost to the taxpayer, a minibus and 4 bin bags per person is all that is required. Pick up point would be Cyril Le Marquand House on a rota at 7.00am daily. Clear the town of all rubbish and continue to the Green Zones.
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Issue all lazy loafer social security scrongers with badges indicating their willingness to seek employment and their ability to humbly accept jobs which they feel are too much like hard work.
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