Tag Archives: Employment and Labour Market

The government must remove the barriers holding back potential entrepreneurs from starting the high-value, growth boosting companies which are key to unlocking UK productivity, says a new study by the Social Market Foundation (SMF) think tank.

Advancing the skills of low-paid workers is essential if the UK is to make work pay and remain globally competitive says the Social Market Foundation (SMF) in its new report, Making Progress: Boosting the skills and wage prospects of the low paid, released on Monday 28 April 2014.

The Social Market Foundation's response to the 2014 Budget statement.

With Danny Alexander MP set to make a major speech on employee ownership tomorrow, the author of the SMF’s recent report on employee ownership, Mutually Assured Growth, sets out four policies that he hopes the Chief Secretary might take on.

This SMF response analyses some of the key announcements in the Chancellor's Autumn Statement, noting a remarkable focus on the long-term.

This Social Market Foundation pre-Autumn Statement briefing looks at the Chancellor's plan to target a surplus on the current structural budget and explores alternatives to cuts from 2017/18.

An ‘employee ownership bank’ is needed to support a more diverse economy, which could restore faith in alternative business structures following the failings at the Co-op Bank, the Social Market Foundation claims today in a new report supported by the John Lewis Partnership.

New official figures on the second year of the Government's flagship back-to-work scheme, the Work Programme, demonstrate that while performance is greatly improved on the first year, many providers are still at risk of contract termination due to under-performance against arbitrary DWP criteria, according to the Social Market Foundation.

SMF initial reaction to the Work Programme statistics, published on 27 June 2013.