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The Chancellor says he will fight for "full employment" in Britain, but he is only saying that more people in the country will have jobs - not that everyone in the UK will end up in work

The Chancellor says he will fight for "full employment" in Britain, making job creation a central plank of the Government's economic plan

George Osborne's announcement that savers will be able to access their retirement pots as and when they want will throw many pension strategies into disarray.

Ben Gummer wants salary deductions renamed as 'earnings tax' – a move that has caught the eye of George Osborne

A Whitehall source said the Chancellor was “being cunning” to counter Labour’s attacks on Britain’s cost-of-living crisis while another said the figure was

Workers could be asked to put a bigger slice of their income into their pension scheme under plans being considered by the Conservative Party.

Benefits are often an essential subsidy to low wages rather than an alternative to work.

To maximise people’s chances of finding work we need to tackle the structural problems they face.

The Chancellor says he wants the highest proportion of people in work in the G7 but slammed Labour's attempts to cut dole queues by guaranteeing full employment

George Osborne has committed the Conservatives to achieving full employment as the party seeks to convince voters that spending cuts are not its only priority.

Chancellor George Osborne says he will fight for "full employment" in Britain, stating his "ambition" to have "the highest employment rate of any of the world's leading economies"

Chancellor repudiates 1991 declaration by Norman Lamont that unemployment was a price worth paying to bring down inflation

George Osborne has failed to secure an increase in the minimum wage to £7 as it is set to rise to £6.50, despite suggesting that the economy could "afford" such a rise. The minimum wage will rise to £6.50 in a 3% increase, on recommendation by the Low Pay Commission, which sets the ideal level, business secretary Vince Cable told MPs today.

The British Chambers of Commerce calls on George Osborne to use his Budget speech on 19 March to focus on youth employment, training and enterprise.

British workers are still seeing their wages eaten into by soaring inflation as the latest figures showed salaries increased by 0.9% over the last year, while inflation rose by 2%, over double the amount.

Katie Allen: The Low Pay Commission is supposed to advise the government on the minimum wage, but George Osborne seems to be taking over the job. This may not necessarily be a good thing

Coalition tensions after junior party claims Conservative ministers are latching on to fairness agenda

Heather Stewart: George Osborne's answer to the weakness of British wages is to deny that the problem exists

TUC has criticised Osborne's "work till you drop" pension age changes, which see's younger workers having to continue working until they reach the ripe-old-age of 69.