Employment Rights Bill: Bill 81 of 2024-25
The government introduced the Employment Rights Bill in the House of Lords on 14 March 2025. The House is scheduled to debate the bill at second reading on 27 March 2025.
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Measuring Full Employment (100 KB , PDF)
The Conservative manifesto for the 2015 general election set out the aim of achieving full employment. Clause 1 of the Welfare Reform and Work Bill, currently in committee stage in the House of Commons, would require the Secretary of State to report annually to Parliament on the progress made towards full employment, although it does not define a particular measure or target. There are a number of ways that full employment could be measured, depending on whether one is focusing on the employment rate or the unemployment rate.
The latest ONS labour market statistics released in mid-October show that for the three-month period June to August 2015, 73.6 percent of people aged from 16 to 64 were in work. This is the highest rate recorded since comparable records began in 1971.
The unemployment rate in the same three-month period was 5.4 percent, the lowest unemployment rate seen since March to May 2008, when a rate of 5.2 percent was recorded.
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Measuring Full Employment (100 KB , PDF)
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