A Counter-Inflationary Job Guarantee for the United Kingdom
This policy paper sets out a comprehensive proposal for a permanent, voluntary Job Guarantee designed to eliminate involuntary unemployment while strengthening price stability and community wellbeing. The programme offers employment to anyone willing and able to work, replacing unemployment with a paid employment buffer that expands during downturns and contracts as private-sector hiring recovers. Drawing on international evidence and detailed UK modelling, the paper outlines how the Job Guarantee would operate as an automatic stabiliser, anchor wages and prices through a fixed labour standard, and deliver substantial social, environmental, and macroeconomic benefits.
The proposal details programme design, governance, wage-setting mechanisms, phased implementation, and expected national impacts. It demonstrates how a UK-wide Job Guarantee can provide meaningful work addressing unmet community and environmental needs, raise living standards, reduce poverty, and stabilise inflation.
The paper is currently in its final consultation stage and is scheduled for public release in January.
