The Budget Cuts Are Most Wounding to Those Who Can Least Afford to Bear Them
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The cuts announced by the Coalition Government will produce enormous job losses in the public and private sectors ("Osborne's pound(s)81bn gamble", The Herald, October 21). However, the package will also affect the types of new jobs that will be created and the quality of working conditions in old jobs too.
In the UK, where the toll taken by occupational diseases and injuries is still very considerable indeed - millions adversely affected by both categories - it is profoundly worrying that those services geared to protecting workers and reducing that toll have been very severely reduced.See the full content of this document
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The Budget Cuts Are Most Wounding to Those Who Can Least Afford to Bear Them
The Westminster Government contribution to the Health and Safety Executive is to be cut by 35% over the next four years. Swingeing cuts to local authority budgets and the pound(s)1bn to be slashed from public spending in Scotland will amplify the effect. Overall, it is likely to mean a massive cut in enforcement activity across all sectors (except major hazards, where...
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