{"id":478358,"date":"2026-03-16T09:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T09:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/478358\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T09:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T09:17:09","slug":"firms-to-get-3000-for-each-unemployed-18-24-year-old-they-hire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/478358\/","title":{"rendered":"Firms to get \u00a33,000 for each unemployed 18-24 year-old they hire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said the reforms &#8220;underpin our ambition to create an economy that works for everyone, closing the skills gap and supporting more young people into meaningful employment&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Michelin star chef Tom Kerridge gave his backing to the scheme, saying &#8220;these incentives will give our industry a great boost&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Conservatives have claimed the government&#8217;s  Employment Rights Act and hike in national insurance contributions on employers has had an impact on young people looking for work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Shadow work and pensions Secretary Helen Whately said &#8220;the best way to tackle youth unemployment is to back businesses to create jobs, not tax them out of existence to fund benefits and subsidies&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Conservatives say they would cut business rates for &#8220;thousands of high street businesses&#8221; and &#8220;roll back&#8221; the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c2dz16jxjp1o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">legislation<\/a> coming into effect later this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Under the act, which applies to England, Scotland and Wales, workers will have the right to claim unfair dismissal from six months into their employment. Currently, there is a two-year qualifying period.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Labour had pledged to offer all workers the right to claim unfair dismissal from their first day in a job as part of their election manifesto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said the reforms &#8220;underpin our ambition to create an economy that works for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-478358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}