Confederation responds to Queen's Speech

Safeguarding jobs and tackling youth unemployment must remain the Government's number one priority according to an organisation that represents recruiters of interim managers.

Responding to the recent Queen's Speech, the Chief Executive of the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC), said that it was important to look at new ways of providing support and building effective bridges into the world of work, in particular by continuing to enhance co-operation between public and private sector providers.

Kevin Green went on to say it was also vital that the Government takes an approach to skills policy that prepares Britain for the upturn. 

It was also crucial that plans to introduce legislation to ensure equal treatment for agency workers - due to take effect in October 2011 - do not add cost and bureaucracy to the recruitment process as this would go against the Government's job creation objectives.

On the public deficit Green said, in the longer-term, it must be reduced but this pressing need should be balanced against that of keeping people in work. 

He said that REC members have been balancing the reduction of the supply of workers into the private sector with those in the public sector.

The UK needed to see an upturn in the private sector jobs market if the recovery is going to be sustainable, he added.

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