The TUC said that three immediate policy changes are now needed;
increasing statutory minimum redundancy pay, greater tax relief on redundancy pay and a reverse in cuts to front line staff at the Department for Work and Pensions who deal with the unemployed.

The TUC accuses the current policies of 'blaming the victim' and criticises the plans for a 'workfare' scheme which could see employers exploiting unemployed people at the expense of paid workers.

There can be no assumption that the people who are losing their jobs will find it easy to get new ones and they will need all the help they can get with redundancy pay, retraining and personal advice.
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The Government must also drop work-for-dole plans that pander to the prejudice that unemployment is the fault of the unemployed, but do nothing to help people get jobs.

As employment rises, will we see a change in attitude to unemployment and the view that unemployed people should work for their benefits?

More people will become unemployed themselves or know somebody who has lost their job through no fault of their own, so perhaps public attitudes towards unemployment could change and influence the Government policy values that underpin current plans?