The CIPD has joined forces with the Government on their flagship welfare to work initiative and is calling on HR professionals to help make the scheme a success. The Work Programme aims to make sure that people who are unemployed and claim benefits are well placed to take advantage of available job vacancies.
Dr John Philpott, chief economic adviser at the CIPD, said: "The coexistence of welfare dependency alongside opportunity is as much a failure of social policy as economic policy and can and must be tackled, whatever the rate of economic growth."
CIPD, November 2010
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