LONDON: Prime Minister Gordon Brown will on Monday unveil plans to create half a million new jobs in an effort to have "a British job for every British worker," his office said.
He is set to outline the measures in his first speech to the Trades Union Congress (TUC), which brings together most of the country's unions, since succeeding Tony Blair as prime minister in June.
The proposals include ways to help single parents, and others who have not been in employment for extended periods of time, get back to work, as well as widening a job-creating partnership between local job centres and major employers across the country.
"In total, the government believes that if we are able to implement all of these measures, an extra 500,000 British jobs could be created for British workers," a spokesman for Brown's Downing Street office said.
"The prime minister believes that, with jobs today available for more than 30 million people in the country, we can, if we make the right decisions, advance closer to full employment than ever before in our history, so that there is a British job for every British worker."
Brown's speech follows a proposal floated by Home Secretary Jacqui Smith on Sunday, when she said that she wanted more non-EU migrant workers to be made to pass an English test before being allowed to enter Britain.
The English-language requirement is currently placed on all highly-skilled migrants, but it may be extended to all skilled workers wanting to migrate to Britain, and possibly low-skilled workers in future, as well.
Brown's employment plans, meanwhile, include the possibility of a guarantee of a job interview for an available job for all single parents, and increased vocational opportunities for young people not in work or education.
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