Action on unemployment tops new Council of Ministers’ policy agenda

Tuesday 17th January 2012, 2:58PM GMT.

Providing Islanders with a chance of employment is a top priority

CREATING jobs will be one of the top priorities for the States over the next three years.

Getting Islanders into work is one of six main aims identified in the first draft of a plan unveiled by the new Council of Ministers that will set government policy for the years ahead.

It comes on the same day that ministers announced that they are doubling the size of a workplace scheme that helps unemployed people find work.

The Advance Plus Scheme has already helped get more than 100 Islanders aged 20 and over into work. The target for the next 12 months is 200.

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Spock Looks Angry

January 17, 2012 at 3:19 pm

Boy he looks angry in that photo.

Don’t suppose limiting the number of immigrants flooding the island is on the agenda. easiest way to ensure employment for locals is to enforce the 5 year rule and make sure that any vacancy is offered to locals or people with quals first.

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- Scrutineer
  
  January 18, 2012 at 7:38 am
  
  … just as long as the local is competent to do the job for the wage offered (?) and is a good worker……??!!!
  
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Lewton

January 17, 2012 at 3:50 pm

So what our COM is saying is,that it is ok to have registered unemployment at around the 1300 mark in the next 12 months or so.
Now that’s what I call a proactive approach!

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mick

January 17, 2012 at 4:30 pm

Great news three of us were made redundant and then they took on two Advance to work on lower grades.

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Perspicuous

January 17, 2012 at 5:39 pm

I realise that there’s a subtle distinction but I have to question the validity of a plan that states:

The economy, employment and sustainable economic growth
• Jersey’s success has …. This growth has provided employment, which is currently at an all time high,…

Moments later

• Perhaps the most obvious sign of the current difficult economic climate in Jersey is the current level of unemployment.

Is it just a plan for the sake of having a plan?

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Overpopulated

January 17, 2012 at 6:01 pm

How about stopping the mass immigration which has created a race to the bottom for wages.

WORK PERMITS NOW

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- si
  
  January 18, 2012 at 8:05 pm
  
  Completely agree! Jersey is overcrowded, there are way too many cars on the roads and there aren’t enough jobs. Jersey needs to bring in a better work permit system than the current one, which clearly isn’t working
  
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gino risoli

January 17, 2012 at 6:35 pm

Every parish could identify work for their parisheners who are unemployed so they can feel part of the community rather than left out in the wilderness.

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- the thin wallet
  
  January 19, 2012 at 2:43 pm
  
  the old parish welfare system was good at this .
  
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me

January 17, 2012 at 7:24 pm

There’s a big difference in getting into work for 3 months experience at no cost to the employer and getting the offer of a job that pays decent money. More employers are cottoning on this free labour and jobs just aren’t coming up any more

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- the thin wallet
  
  January 19, 2012 at 2:42 pm
  
  this happened to my neighbours son and another lad round the corner, he was laid off and replaced by a cheaper worker.
  
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