Prime Minister Cameron has stated that he is considering offering tax breaks to people who hire cleaners. Although this may sound like an unconventional reform proposal to many people, he intends to use it to create jobs.
Cameron said that such a measure would encourage more women to enter the workforce and would create a new jobs for cleaners. In the long run, these tax breaks would add many more jobs to Britain’s struggling work force.
Cameron said that he got the idea while visiting Sweden, which had created a similar policy. According to Cameron, Sweden had improved their economy and built its workforce with the use of cheap labor.
However, the tax break in Sweden has been highly criticized. Many people have argued that it exists to provide tax breaks to the wealthiest figures in society.
The Swedish government argues that the new process has created about 5,000 new jobs. However, those figures don’t stand up to the voice of all critics. The issue they have is that far more wealthy citizens are likely to take advantage of the services than poorer citizens. In fact, the group that is by far the most likely to use these services is those who are earning about £5,000 or more a month.
In addition, it is unclear how many UK citizens would really benefit from the policies Cameron is proposing. According to the findings at the summit, most of the people who have benefited from the tax break in Sweden have been immigrants.
However, Cameron stated that his real goal was to create a more flexible working style for women so that they would be able to work alongside men in the workforce. This is important, because organizations seem to benefit more when they have men and women working together in the workforce.
Fredrik Reinfeld, Sweden’s Prime Minister, has had a profound influence on Cameron’s ideas in this summit. Reinfeld said that he felt encouraging more women to join the workforce would reduce the risk levels in a number of different fields such as finance. These feelings are likely to be supported by many feminists who have stated that the lack of women in the workforce played a role in the financial downfall of 2008.
Although many people find these proposals to either be interesting solutions or highly controversial, the policy will likely not be implemented for some time. Cameron is just giving some feedback on possible ideas and it is unlikely he will commit to anything right away.