Teenagers could benefit from a cut in the minimum wage as youth unemployment
nears 1m, according to the British Chambers of Commerce.
Published: 9:34PM BST 30 Sep 2009
In its submission to the Low Pay Commission, which will recommend the rate,
the trade body says that the recession has seriously
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This is the only difficult bit, and anyone good enough to deserve a pay raise has got to be capable of managing it once they know how. Organized people don’t manage their lives by instinct, you know. They have to have lists and notes to make it possible. The only
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MY life has been punctuated by points where I followed my heart rather than my head. I grew up in Ann Arbor, Mich., and went to the alternative high school there. It was called Community High — Commie High for short — and it had an unstructured format. I spent
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Q. You were just passed over for a promotion that you believe you deserved. You are shocked but don’t want to mishandle the situation. What should you do?
Chris Reed
A. First, calm down. You may feel as if you’ve just sustained a body blow, but you need time to put
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The darkest hour, says Adrian Rose, is 3am. “Having eventually got myself to sleep, I’d wake up again after an hour and just lie there from 3am to 6am. They were what I call my ‘dark times’ because you can’t do anything or talk to anyone.”
The month after losing his
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Jonathan Lewis is a complex character. Advertising man turned successful ITV
executive, he switched tracks two years ago and joined the third sector
where he mixes the socially responsible with an incredibly complex form of
South American-style wrestling.
By Roland Gribben
Published: 4:35PM BST 23 Sep 2009
Jonathan
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If the Blair and Brown governments have ever wanted to create a utopia, Selly Oak’s jobcentre gives you a pretty clear sense of what it might look like. The carpets and furniture are all in deep, warm tones: oranges, blues and purples set off by photographs of apparently grateful faces
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It’s a conundrum: central bank chiefs such as the Bank of England’s Mervyn King and the US Federal Reserve’s Ben Bernanke say the recession is over, yet unemployment on both sides of the Atlantic continues to rise rapidly, with Britain’s jobless rate hitting a 13-year high of almost 2.5 million
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I’M a programmer at Hashrocket, a Web development firm in Florida. Our style of working is called pair programming, which has been popular for years in some software design companies. Two of us sit side by side at a computer workstation to develop a program that is the
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Imagine looking at an old school photograph, counting along the lines of faces
and picking out the one in five that would now be looking for work.
By Richard Tyler, Enterprise Editor
Published: 9:48PM BST 16 Sep 2009
But that is the startling reality presented by Wednesday’s unemployment
figures. While
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