Goals & Policy Detail - Work

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This is what you say:

We want rights and protection in work and employment opportunities for those seeking work.

What's wrong with things as they are?

Up to 4 million people want to work in Britain but cannot get work
Unemployment hot spots have created poverty, discontent and benefit dependency
Dominant corporations are making it hard for independent businesses to compete
Foreign workers are often abused and get lost in the system
Business fraud is hard to detect and prosecute

UKpopdems will make sure that Britons have a right to work and are protected in work, so we'll:

Implement a 'right to work' policy so all Britons can find employment if they need work.
In the public sector, make sure at least 80% are front-line jobs
Ensure 'right to work' also applies to all organisations that seek government funding
Encourage 'right to work' in the private sector through allowances where employees are taken directly from the long term unemployed or disabled register
Re-focus job centres for this new role and ensure training is geared to individual need
Ensure redundancy payments, after a probationary period, will keep an ex-employee for at least three months
Register all businesses in order to reduce fraud and protect foreign workers. Utilise community officers to check and liaise
Encourage whistle-blowing for fraudulent, corrupt and dangerously incompetent performance
Develop a process so that dominant businesses, small independents and start-ups can compete on the same terms
Implement special allowances for the most successful British companies returning very high revenues for the country

What will this do for the British People?

People who need a job but have difficulty finding employment will be helped to get one
The vast majority of new public sector jobs will be in the front-line
Business red tape and regulation will be reduced but employees and customers will be at least as well protected as now
Community officers will liaise closely with the community to detect business fraud and protect foreign workers
Small independent companies, especially retailers, will be able to compete more favourably with dominant players
Britain's most successful companies that contribute most to wealth at home will be rewarded

Companion notes to the policy

Employment is the sure route to wealth, independence and self-respect for the individual and for Britain. Unemployment can often lead to poverty, dependency and humiliation -and provides the foundation for crime and disaffection.
'Right to Work' provides real jobs for people who need them and provides appropriate basic skills training. There is plenty to do in the front-line of the public sector alone. This is a gradual process, but it includes jobs for people who have low basic skills and are discriminated against. An early focus will be ex-offenders, mobile disabled, the young unemployed, and those disadvantaged or discriminated against.
We need to encourage whistle-blowers if the community is to be protected against fraud, corruption and those who are a danger to others. Compulsively false whistle-blowing will be detected and discouraged.
Methods to support small independents may include reductions in overheads and favourable purchasing terms.

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