A Study On Labour Market Policy Of The UK's Coalition Government(2010-2015)

Under the background of the financial crisis in 2010,the coalition government of David Cameron took office.The reform and adjustment of labor market policies mainly included following the neo-liberalism idea on one hand,relaxing the regulation of labor market as much as possible,and stimulating enterprises to create jobs.On the other hand,under the guidance of the supply-side strategy,a series of measures should be taken to strengthen the employment skills training of workers and promote the flow of labor force in the labor market.This paper consists of three parts:introduction,text and conclusion.The text consists of four chapters.The introduction mainly introduces the significance and definition of the topic,as well as the research status at home and abroad,the main research content,and the key points and difficulties of the article.The first chapter mainly introduces the labor market reform dilemma faced by Cameron's government.First of all,the outbreak of the financial crisis caused the unemployment rate to rise,and the unemployment problems such as long-term unemployment and youth unemployment became more and more serious under the catalyst of the economic crisis.The labor market intervention measures introduced by new labor party,such as the future jobs fund,were gradually criticized by the conservative party because of the excessively expensive government expenditure,and the problem of unemployment deepened.Second,the financial crisis has led to a further deterioration in the fiscal position and a significant reduction in Labour market spending.Finally,tensions over employment relations,with businesses complaining of overburdened regulation and resurgent unions,have become a challenge for the Cameron's coalition government.The second chapter mainly introduces the theoretical source of labor market policy during Cameron's coalition government.The coalition government(2010-2015)has inherited the new liberalism idea of the Thatcher's government,,and make it as themain theoretical framework of policy making,and it timely use the new Keynesian economics principle in order to solve the Labour market solidifying,such problems as lack of flexibility,high unemployment for a long time.While the big social theory from the perspective of sociology reshape relations of the state,society and individuals in the Labour market.The third chapter mainly analyzes the implementation process of Cameron's coalition government's labor market policy at the level of fiscal policy.Tighter fiscal policy has led to cuts in public-sector budgets and changes in public-sector employment and wages in the Labour market.The employment of Public sector is shrinking through redundancies,skills dilution,reliance on voluntary Labour to fill vacancies and transfers the services to the private sector in the "public service sector".The imbalance between "centralization" and "decentralization" of compensation management is reflected in the wage and salary.To control public-sector wages.The Treasury has taken many measures,such as freezing wages and increasing the size of public-sector pension contributions.The fourth chapter mainly analyzes the employment skill level of labor market policy.In an attempt to tackle deepening skills shortages and youth unemployment in the Labour market,Cameron's coalition government kicked off apprenticeship reform by scrapping the previous government's high-cost train-to-benefit scheme.The Wolf report and Richard report of 2011-2012 pointed out the direction for the reform of apprenticeship.The definition of the concept of apprenticeship,the establishment of the evaluation criteria for apprenticeship in the "pioneer" plan and the selection of the funding model for apprenticeship constituted the main reform measures of the government.The fifth chapter mainly analyzes the work welfare policy of labor market policy.The “welfare to work” reform mainly focuses on the problem that the labor market relies too much on the work welfare and the employment motivation is not strong,andhas achieved labour-market policy making by simplifying benefits,tightening eligibility for benefits and a trilogy of work programmes.The sixth chapter mainly analyzes the relationship between the labor market policy of employment level.In order to further improve the flexibility of the labor market,the coalition government fought back against the labor movement and political strategies adopted by the labor unions in terms of union policies,which weakened the influence of the labor unions in the labor market.And it has introduced a fee mechanism in Labour tribunals,such as the Labour court,to reduce the number of claims for unfair dismissal.Finally,the coalition government made adjustments to measures such as unfair dismissal rights,gender equality in the Labour market and Shared parental leave through a combination of legislation and voluntary measures.The seventh chapter mainly analyses the characteristics of Cameron's coalition government labor market policy and policy implementation effect,on the whole,the period of the labor market policies will squeeze the economy always plan as the primary factor of policy,labor market policies in the new Labour period of inheritance and development at the same time,also have loosen the Labour market regulation characteristics.This chapter also analyzes the labor market policies in this period from the perspectives of employment rate,labor market participation rate and work quality.