neo-lib dems cut job centre staff as unemployment rockets

Cutting jobcentre staff while unemployment rises is 'absurd', union says Plans announced by the Department for Work and Pensions today (28 June) tocut 8,000 jobs from jobcentres by March 2011 are "economically absurd", thePublic and Commercial Services union says. Job cuts on this scale are unprecedented at a time when unemployment iscontinuing to rise and the move will not just add to the