Getting the UK Working
The CBI is calling on the government to introduce a new tax incentive to encourage companies to take on young unemployed people, as part of a package of measures aimed at boosting employment across the UK
The Young Britain Credit - announced in the CBI's Action for Jobs report - would be worth £1,500 to firms taking on an unemployed person aged between 16 and 24.
Other proposals in the report include creating around 450 business ambassadors to strengthen links between schools and businesses; introducing a comprehensive "readiness for work" assessment for every unemployed person; and suspending, rather than completely cancelling benefits when someone initially takes a job.
Press release
CBI pushes for Young Britain tax boost to get Britain working
Views from the top
What senior politicians and businesspeople and politicans have to say on jobs
Read the full report
The CBI's in-depth analysis of the ways to help young people into work
Case studies
The sucesses and challenges of skills training for employers
Ready for work
Ensuring young people have all the skills they need to enter the job market
Welfare to work
How to ensure that it pays for unemployed people to move into work
Making the first year count
Improving the position of young people in the jobs market
Mapping the route to growth (pdf)
A CBI report from June on rebalancing the labour market
In the media
How UK newpapers responded to the CBI's campaign for tackling youth unemployment
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