Work and Unemployment

Best Ideas

  1. The InterSkills Project
  2. The Job Society, discussing the future of work
  3. 'Time Money' from fathers to supplement child support
  4. Training in leisure and d-i-y skills for unemployment or retirement
  5. The Apprentice-Master Alliance - progress report
  6. Green job options
  7. Ways to find enjoyable work
  8. Advantages and disadvantages of four-day week
  9. A rating questionnaire for job references
  10. Paid day off for errant employees
  11. The lowest rated 5% fired every six months
  12. No parking space for late-comers

Social Inventions

  1. Workfare improved
  2. Voice mail-boxes for the homeless

Book of Visions

  1. Workstart Overseas
  2. Housing for the unwaged
  3. A bell rung for job-winners
  4. 'Create', encouraging enterprise through community projects
  5. The Apprentice Alliance
  6. Job Telegrams
  7. Green employment agency
  8. Business students to help unemployed
  9. The unemployed as language ambassadors
  10. Allotments for the unemployed
  11. Compulsory sabbaticals
  12. Thirteen weeks extra paid holiday a year
  13. Compound National Insurance on overtime

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