Another measure which is being considered, said the department, was removing "gold plating" for Transfer of Undertakings rules to protect staff whose employment contracts are transferred to new employers.
Those whose employment ended before this date, and those whose employment was ended voluntarily or for disciplinary reasons will not be eligible.
Boomer-age workers are the only age group whose employment prospects have improved since last summer.
The authors label Enron a "typical -- if somewhat extreme -- example" of a company whose employment rose and fell rapidly.
In my case, my husband is an independent contractor whose employment is sporadic and has no health care benefits.
Unfortunately, institutions whose employment policies truly meet the needs of today's two-career families with young children remain rare.
Until now, the government has not been able to lay off civil servants, whose employment rights are in effect constitutionally guaranteed.
However, there are communities whose employment levels, benefit reliance and educational attainment are a cause for concern - these include the Bangladeshi, Pakistani, Portuguese, Somali and Turkish communities.
I sit in on an interview with one client, an eastern European woman whose employment and support allowance (ESA) payments have been stopped.
Temporary-help agencies, whose employment level is considered a signal of the economy's short-term direction, cut 48,000 jobs, or almost 1.7percentt of their work force.
Giving a "fixed abode" and a single "occupation" made little sense to people whose employment was often seasonal, temporary or made up of several jobs.
