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Employment & Labour

The aim of fuller employment, improved skills and better jobs, especially for socially and economically excluded people, underpins all ECOTEC's research and consultancy work. Through work for major government departments, ECOTEC has helped shape the solution to key policy challenges in this area.  

For example, we have recently reported to DWP on methods to improve  access to Jobcentre Plus services for people with communication barriers – including people with disabilities and people with English as a second language –groups for whom access to work is key. 

ECOTEC has also been supporting DWP in the development of the City Strategy Business Plans, a central element of employment strategy in the pathfinder areas, being rolled out nationally in the near future.  

ECOTEC can help you:

  • Plan your employment initiatives – especially where this involves improving pathways to employment for economically and socially excluded groups;
  • Advise you on best practice with our knowledge of 'what works' from Europe and other parts of the UK;
  • Help you plan practical programmes and projects in place to meet national and regional policy;
  • Carry out research with vulnerable workers and employers in a sensitive but systematic manner;
  • Evaluate your initiatives.

Service Portfolio: Impact of opening electricity and gas markets on employment

This 18 month project was initiated by the European Commission in 2006 and was implemented by ECOTEC on behalf of the Directorate General for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities.

 

Our aim was to expand findings of the first study into the effects of liberalisation on employment in gas and electricity industries carried out by ECOTEC on behalf of the European Commission in 2000/01 by covering the enlarged EU-27 and Turkey, and by taking into account recent key legislative acts related to the energy sector. Our work also sought to capture examples of good practice of the process by which restructuring has been achieved and managed by different energy companies.

 

Our study produced comprehensive insights and recommendations for policymakers, both at the European and national level, on the effect of liberalisation on employment and identified the groups most affected by restructuring.

james.rampton@ecotec.com
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