PM unveils new jobs package for industrial workers

25 January 2010

Prime minister Gordon Brown will launch a new Innovation Investment Fund, a move which could benefit those seeking engineering sales jobs.

Initially, £125 million will be made available to businesses that operate within the high-tech, low-carbon industry.

He will also extend the job guarantee that will see all 18 to 24-year-olds who have been out of employment for six months offered a vacancy, work placement or training.

And Mr Brown hopes the scheme will be the beginning of a drive in the engineering sector, which could result in some 2.5 million new careers being created by 2020.

He said: "Engineers working in the nuclear industry; mechanics maintaining hybrid engines; designers responsible for new innovations … these will take their place in the middle-class workforces of the future."

The news follows recent remarks by research fellow at the Institute for Employment Studies Thomas Usher that the worst of the recession was now over in terms of unemployment.

By Donna Fletcher

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