TUC analysis published today using official figures, shows that the number of men doing part-time jobs because they can't find full-time work more than doubled to nearly 600,000 between December 2007 and December 2011. The number of under-employed women has increased by 74% to 780,000, bringing the total number of people in involuntary part-time work to a record 1.38 million.
The proportion of women working part-time that don't want a full-time job, often because of family and caring responsibilities, has also been falling. This shows that the recent rise in part-time employment has mainly come about through necessity rather than choice.
Number of people doing part-time work because couldn't find full-time jobs,Q4 2011 (by region and gender)
(Quarterly Labour Force Survey, October — December, 2011)
When this crisis began I said 4 million people would be unemployed as a result of it.
Add together the unemployed and underemployed now and we're there - and it's only going to get worse.
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Interesting ?
http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2012-20-16/does-12-year-old-canadian-victoria-grant-understand-more-about-most-important
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I note the government are concerned at the number of people working part-time, and want them to increase their hours.
What part of “part-time” are they unable to get ?
Maybe they think that everyone working part-time is doing it to get more time to spend drinking ?
I expect that as the government is concerned about the number of part time workers, some of whom will be claiming tax credits, then the next step will to be to reduce substantially the value of these credits so creating even more poverty. There appears to be no end to the vindictiveness from these elites. I never considered that I would be living in a developed country where foodbanks, as in Kings Lynn, are being established to help people who are too poor to buy the food they need. How long will it be before we see the evidence of malnutrition on a wide scale in some of our communities?
I’m sure a public-spirited private company will agree to run the food kitchens across England in return for more-than-ample recompense ?