Surprise unemployment rise

[jake-the-peg]

It seems that unemployment is now up 35,000 after 6 months of falls.

Any ideas of why? Has there been a sudden loss of confidence by employers in the economy?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-11998364

What does 35,000 unemployed cost the nation in benefit and lost tax income?

[Prudie]

Never normally post from work but must add a few words then I'm out -
NewJudge accepting that all staff should be responsible for the quality of their work the QA manager role involves specialised knowledge that all staff cannot be responsible for - usually trained auditors with detailed knowledge of required accreditations (BSI ISO etc etc) and the ability to ensure the entire 'workforce/workplace' can meet those standards, also usually responsible for dealing with customer complaints and often includes Environment and H&S within their remit. I don't work in Quality but I do know that role is one that is required these days to meet legislation and not a waste of taxpayers money at all.

[youngmafbog]

To answer your last question Jake.

35 K on unemployment costs the taxpayers an awful lot less than 35K lesbian outreach workers on 50-70K a year.

[New Judge]

Yes, Prudie, I too know what Quality Assurance Managers do having worked in a large private organisation for most of my working life and having carried out that role for a few years when my company caught the "TQM Bug" (which it has thankfully now recovered from).

So I am in a good position to pass comment on what they do and I still maintain that they are an expensive luxury.

[craft1948]

The public sector is now starting to feel what happened in BT with their redundancy programme (still ongoing) which started 18 years ago. Unfortunately in their massive down-sizing they got rid of too many indians and kept the useless chiefs.