Blog posts tagged "employment"

March 14, 2012 6:15 pm 6 Comments

Nick Clegg claimed today: "The unemployment of women went up by 24 per cent under Labour". Was he right? FactCheck investigates.

December 14, 2011 4:04 pm 13 Comments

Mr Miliband reminded MPs of the Chancellor's optimistic assessment at the time of the spending review in November last year. George Osborne said at the time that private sector job creation would "far outweigh" cuts in public sector employment. But have those high hopes - based on forecasts from the independent Office of Budget Responsibility, been dashed?

November 16, 2011 4:29 pm 32 Comments

Youth unemployment is now at a record high, and the total number of jobless across the country has risen to 2.62m. Still, the employment minister Chris Grayling appeared to have found reasons for optimism today. He remarked that there were 90,000 vacancies at job centres every week. Sounds good? Time for the FactCheck team to investigate just what's on offer.

October 12, 2011 4:51 pm 4 Comments

David Cameron argued today that there are 50,000 more women in work than the time of the election, but Mr Miliband maintains that things haven't been this bad since the Conservatives were last in government. Who’s right?

July 27, 2011 3:05 pm 10 Comments

A few alarm bells went off in the Channel 4 newsroom yesterday when the Chancellor flagged up jobs growth as the silver lining to some rather gloomy GDP figures. Is growth in the public sector worth shouting about? FactCheck investigates.

June 30, 2010 7:08 pm 12 Comments

David Cameron says employment will increase - but new figures out today show 600,000 public sector jobs face the chop. FactCheck investigates.