By Scott Wright SCOTTISH business leader Sandy Begbie has warned of the danger of young people drifting further from the workplace amid the continuing fall-out from the coronavirus pandemic. Mr Begbie, who authored the Youth Guarantee report for the Scottish Government in the wake of the crisis, is currently leading a series of high-profile events examining inclusion in the workplace. Monica Lewinsky has been among the high-profile speakers who have appeared at the events in recent weeks, which have been hosted by the Scottish HR Leadership Group, set up by recruitment firm FWB Park Brown. Mr Begbie, who held senior human resources roles with Standard Life before joining Scottish Financial Enterprise as chief executive in October, fears younger and older people could be excluded from the current over-supply of labour, which has been sparked by redundancies soaring in light of the pandemic.
Humza Yousaf said indyref2 is essential as Westminster will hold the Scottish economy back SCOTS must have the opportunity to take our future into our own hands after the country has recovered from coronavirus, Humza Yousaf has said ahead of May s election. The Justice Secretary, who is also standing as a candidate in Glasgow Pollok, said indyref2 is essential as Westminster will hold the Scottish economy back. In this election the SNP’s offer is this – experienced leadership and serious government to lead Scotland through the pandemic and into recovery, Yousaf said in a speech. And when the crisis is over, and only then, we must have the right to decide whether to become an independent country and take our future into our own hands.
Guaranteeing The Right To Decent Work
The job guarantee is an ambitious proposal that aims to ensure everyone in society has access to fairly waged, decent work. Amid the upheaval caused by an economic recession that threatens widespread unemployment, solutions need to be found rapidly, and many proposals have been brought to the table, from universal basic income to more traditional stimulus measures.
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Pavlina Tcherneva, author of
The Case for a Job Guarantee, explains why these alternatives are destined to fall short, and sets out why a job guarantee would benefit not just the unemployed but society as a whole, providing individuals with greater autonomy, empowering communities, and contributing to solutions to urgent problems such as the environmental and care crises.
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Today, during the plenary debate on the European Social Pillar, Social Democrats called for more ambition in the Commission’s Action Plan. They highlighted the window of opportunity for the Portuguese presidency of the EU to give a long-overdue impulse to Europe’s social dimension.
The leader of the S&D Group in the European Parliament, Iratxe García MEP, said:
“9 out of 10 Europeans want social Europe to be a priority, while the EU has neglected the social dimension for two decades: neoliberal policies and market freedoms took over, undermining the foundations of our integration project. This is why we must now deliver. The Portuguese presidency, and the Social Summit in Porto, can be the turning point to finally make the 2017 European Pillar of Social Rights a reality, as this is an important commitment of Prime Minister António Costa.
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