Election factor The Conservatives are nervous about the distinctly un-Tory prospect of strengthening workforce protection this close to an election, whereas Vince Cable sees it as a popular cause which can give the Liberal Democrats a bit of distinctiveness.
He now faces the prospect of reducing his workforce in a desperate bid to cut costs.
In the future we will have to depend on immigrants to make up our numbers, for without them Singapore will face the prospect of a shrinking workforce and a stagnant economy.
Rival car companies have similar schemes offline that involve lengthy form-filling.Next, there is the prospect of turning the corporate workforce into a marketplace.
The long-term prospect of training a skilled workforce is "America's greatest challenge," said Raymond Stata, chairman of Analog Devices, the Cambridge-based semiconductor firm.
It also raises the prospect of a two-tier academic workforce, with those at the bottom living hand to mouth and unable to pursue research, while those at the top are very well paid.
Particularly when you're just starting off in the workforce, the prospect of finding a job with a blank resume and limited network and connections can be daunting.
In truth, though, the prospect of cuts to the dockyard workforce started to loom large in Portsmouth long before the possibility of a plebiscite on Scottish independence, as a simple matter of economics.
However, in the face of perpetual shortages in primary and underserved care workforces, the prospect of losing potential physicians who are interested in working in these environments to the attrition of ideals is unfortunate, at best.
Facing this picture of an unstable workforce, and the prospect of increasing needs for vulnerable children, it is clear something needs to change, and quickly.
The SOEs still employ some two-thirds of China's 170m-strong urban workforce, and the prospect of throwing millions of people out of work gives China's leaders the jitters.
