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Scottish Labour launches summer jobs campaign

SCOTTISH Labour is launching a "jobs for good" summer campaign today to fight for guaranteed work north of the border.

The party is demanding that the SNP government commits to secure jobs in public services, energy, manufacturing, tourism and hospitality to save Scotland from mass unemployment after the furlough scheme ends.

Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard said: “We need jobs for good. It is crucial to target support towards young people – but the UK government's Kickstart scheme will offer low-paid, part-time jobs for six months only to workers under the age of 24. 

"We need a quality jobs guarantee scheme now, or we risk mass unemployment and a lost generation of young workers."

Scottish Labour said such a scheme should provide jobs in growth industries that pay workers at the trade-union rate and no less than the real living wage, regardless of age.

Official figures revealed last month that Scotland’s unemployment rate rose to the highest of the UK’s four nations.

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