Work and Unemployment
Best Ideas
- The InterSkills Project
- The Job Society, discussing the future of work
- 'Time Money' from fathers to supplement child support
- Training in leisure and d-i-y skills for unemployment or retirement
- The Apprentice-Master Alliance - progress report
- Green job options
- Ways to find enjoyable work
- Advantages and disadvantages of four-day week
- A rating questionnaire for job references
- Paid day off for errant employees
- The lowest rated 5% fired every six months
- No parking space for late-comers
Social Inventions
- Workfare improved
- Voice mail-boxes for the homeless
Book of Visions
- Workstart Overseas
- Housing for the unwaged
- A bell rung for job-winners
- 'Create', encouraging enterprise through community projects
- The Apprentice Alliance
- Job Telegrams
- Green employment agency
- Business students to help unemployed
- The unemployed as language ambassadors
- Allotments for the unemployed
- Compulsory sabbaticals
- Thirteen weeks extra paid holiday a year
- Compound National Insurance on overtime
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