10% of workers fear for jobs future
29/08/2008(11:39)
A new survey has found that over ten per cent of workers fear for the security of their jobs over the next 12 months.
Research by You Gov, commissioned by the Trades Union Congress (TUC), found that 14 per cent of people are "not very" or "not at all" confident about working for their current employer over the next year.
The survey asked 2.857 people and also found that 42 per cent were confident about the future, with 40 per cent of respondents saying they were fairly confident.
Brendan Barber, general secretary of the TUC, said: "These findings show just how many people are getting worried about losing their jobs in the current economic slowdown.
"Of course this does not mean that unemployment will rise by anything like three million, but it does show just how jittery people have become about the economy and their own jobs."
Tanya Hine, the president of the British Association of Women Entrepreneurs, recently said that wage equality between sexes could still exist "for a lot of years".
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