[Guardian] The growth in wages for UK workers is set to stall at just two per cent next year thanks to the large number of migrant workers waiting to fill vacancies, the Guardian has admitted.
Referring to data from the Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development (CIPD), the paper reports that while job creation will remain strong over the next year, wages for most workers will not rise substantially -- and this is in large part due to the high number of migrant workers.
While up to 400,000 new jobs could be created in 2016, there is no sign of a skills shortage, thus making it more difficult for workers to demand a generous pay rise.
According to separate figures, the number of non-UK nationals in the workforce has rocketed from 986,000 in 1997 to 3.22 million now, thus making up more than 10 per cent of Britain's workforce.
Over the past 12 months, three quarters of new jobs created went to non-UK nationals -- 326,000, compared to 122,000 for British workers.
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Gee, supply and demand. Flood the labor market and the value of wages declines. Who could have figured that out. Of course the lefty pols will counter with raising minimum wage which then meets a decline in new job creation.
[DAWN] A YEAR in which significant progress has been made in the fight against militancy is nearing its end with a grim reminder that the war is far from over -- and is far from being conclusively won. The suicide kaboom in Mardan yesterday on a Nadra office has claimed over 20 lives and injured some 60 people. It is hoped that the injured will be given the best possible medical care and the needs of the families of all victims will be addressed humanely and promptly. The casualties should not become yet more forgotten victims in the fight to save Pakistain. For the state and those whose responsibility it is to keep the country safe, there are some urgent reminders about what is at stake here. Taking the fight to the hard boyz in Fata and ramping up counterterrorism efforts in the major cities through so-called intelligence-based operations was going to leave second-tier targets more vulnerable: smaller cities, soft targets -- areas the security and intelligence apparatus may not have prioritised. Therein lies the next great challenge for the state -- developing counterterrorism capabilities that are adequate to deal with the evolving terrorist threat.
Unhappily, developing counterterrorism capabilities appears to be the one area that the state -- both the military and civilian sides of it -- does not consider a priority. While the military leadership does seemingly agitate the issue, there is a basic problem: the perception that the military wants to dominate and lead the effort rather than help the civilian side of the state develop its capabilities and leadership role. But the political government must shoulder a great deal of the blame too. There is a complacency and inertia discernible that is simply unacceptable. The activation of Nacta is a fabled myth; police reforms remain a distant dream; centre-province coordination is mired in politics; and there is a distinct lack of interest in the scientific method when it comes to assembling the tools and personnel to fight terrorism. The arc of insurgencies and terrorism is a well-known one. In the face of overwhelming state power it is initially diminished, only for a gradual regrouping to usually manifest itself and for the threats to evolve and adapt to the state's responses. To win against terrorism and militancy, the state will need to be ahead of that curve.
There also remains the wider problem: the incubators of hate and extremism where bandidosLions of Islam and hard boyz continue to find sanctuary. The trail of most terrorist incidents like in Mardan yesterday usually leads to financiers, aiders and abettors and sanctuaries that run into a very long, though familiar chain. It is not enough to demand outside action against sanctuaries that are beyond Pakistain's borders -- there must be a sustained effort to ensure that no stripe of murderous Moslem or terrorist can find aid or safe haven within.
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[DAWN] POINT six of the National Action Plan calls for the state to choke terrorism financing. Choking funds is not possible without understanding the processes of fundraising, transfers and utilisation of funds. To ensure stern action against the controllers and financiers of terrorism, the government recently established the National Terrorists Financing Investigation Cell. The creation of NTFIC is the practical manifestation of NAP's point six. Without a specialised unit, financing cannot be stopped.
The government has tasked FIA, the State Bank, FBR and intelligence agencies to jointly operate NTFIC. The unit will track financial transactions between the national and international banking systems.
Such ventures cannot succeed without the active cooperation of the provinces. The new initiative has been taken in the light of capacity issues of the existing Financial Monitoring Unit and to improve information-sharing among investigation, intelligence and law-enforcement agencies.
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Three days following the 9/11 attack the U.S. Department of the Treasury formed an interagency task force to combat terrorism. It comprised four Treasury agencies -- the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF), the U.S. Customs Service, the Internal Revenue Service's Criminal Investigations Unit (IRS-CI) and the Secret Service. All had facilities at the World Trade Center destroyed by the September 11 terrorist attack. I
The task force was soon called the Foreign Terrorist Asset Tracking Center (FTATC), and was located in the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Asset Control. Its purpose was to disrupt the funding of terrorist organizations. When the last great book on counter-terrorism is written the FTATC will finally receive its due as the most important element in the war on Islamist terrorism.
Pakistan never copied the American example because its military leaders were actually supporting terrorism.
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[Guardian] The growth in wages for UK workers is set to stall at just two per cent next year thanks to the large number of migrant workers waiting to fill vacancies, the Guardian has admitted.
