Marks & Spencer calls for greater government support to boost youth employment

Marks & Spencer calls for greater government support to boost youth employment

Marks & Spencer (M&S) has urged the UK government to work more closely with businesses to help young people into work, even as new research shows that retail is currently the sector employing the most 16–24-year-olds. The research, conducted by the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) on behalf of M&S, found that one […] The post Marks & Spencer calls for greater government support to boost youth employment appeared first on Apparel…

M&S calls on gov to tackle youth unemployment

Marks and Spencer (M&S) has urged the government to work more closely with businesses to help reduce youth unemployment, whilst calling for National Insurance relief for employers who hire long-term unemployed or disadvantaged young people. M&S has also renewed calls for reform of the Apprenticeship Levy to allow companies greater flexibility in using funds to provide training opportunities. It comes as research from M&S and the Centre for Econo…