“The UK faces a twin youth crisis: one inside the workplace, with younger workers more likely to be laid off by employers managing rising minimum wages and higher employment taxes; and one outside, with high levels of 16–24-year-olds not in education, employment, or training (NEET). The government's goal of achieving growth must include tackling this. And that means avoiding policies that price young people out of their first jobs, such as unnecessarily broad reforms to the labour market that exacerbate the already inflated costs of doing business.
“Quicker progress on the work of Skills England to get more people into the right apprenticeships and vocational training will help, as will tax incentives to support employers to invest more in employee support programmes for staff."
