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UK employment 'to hit 30m by 2017'

Despite the current economic crisis, employment in the UK is set to hit a record high of 30 million by 2017, it has been predicted.

According to estimates from the Commission for Employment and Skills, the financial crisis forms part of the cyclical economic process and factors such as immigration and a population boom will see employment rise within the next eight years.

The commission also predicts that demand for senior officials and managers will increase, but jobs in manufacturing will fall by around 400,000 from 2007 to 2017.

Skills secretary John Denham highlighted that in the short term, the government is attempting to assist those who have lost their jobs.

However, he added that the UK must continue to "do all we can to help people get the secure career jobs they want and need in the industries where growth will be the strongest in the coming years."

Another ray of employment optimism for the country came this week, as Andrew Duff of RWE npower claimed that projects to build nuclear plants in the future may help to stimulate the labor market.

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