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July Jobs Stimulus 2020 

By Gerard Walker, Future Jobs-Skills-Work-Insights

The Government's July Jobs Stimulus is aimed at helping businesses to protect jobs and create new jobs, supporting people without jobs, especially young people, building confidence and solidarity in consumers and communities and starting to prepare for a greener, more sustainable economy in the future. The stimulus package includes tax, expenditure and credit supports. Of particular interest to Learning & Development professionals is a €200 million investment in training and education, skills development, work placement schemes, recruitment subsidies, and job search and assistance measures, to help those who have lost their jobs find a new one, retrain, or develop new skills, in particular for emerging growth sectors.

These measures include:

Supporting People without Jobs, especially Young People  • 16,000 additional places in Higher Education delivered through a variety of measures including Skillnet, Springboard+ and the Humanfalse

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