LONDON (Alliance News) - The UK's Labour party will mount an assault on big outsourcing companies if it wins the election, reducing their role in delivering the government?s back-to-work programme and exploring a plan to force them to pay all workers above the minimum wage in exchange for Whitehall contracts, the Financial Times reports Tuesday citing an interview with Rachel Reeves, Labour?s shadow work and pensions secretary.
Reeves told the newspaper that the Labour party would do away with the current system of big centrally commissioned contracts when the current tranche expired in 2015-16. Instead services would be bought at a more local level, perhaps by local authorities or local enterprise partnerships, which she said would understand the specific barriers to work facing people in their areas and already have strong links with local businesses, she said.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e21eda2c-f95f-11e3-bb9d-00144feab7de.html?siteedition=uk#axzz35TmyMIxn
By Steve McGrath; stevemcgrath@alliancenews.com; @SteveMcGrath1
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