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The study by the Chartered Institute of personnel and development of KPMG, today published a 16pc of employers undertake not sub - 19 with little or no qualifications.

The ICPD / KPMG research has also shown a 9pc more companies would not consider applications of the elderly over 65 years of age. Fly results in right anti-age discrimination introduced in 2006 that is now part of the Government including Act on equality.

Almost one-third of employers has actively exclude certain disadvantaged groups, such as low-skilled young people, unemployed or older workers in the long term, the research revealed. Less than a quarter of employers were hired from groups disadvantaged in the past three years, the study found.

Figures are a stark warning to the Government that unless they drastically improves the "employability" of disadvantaged groups trying to enter the workplace, the Ministry of labour and new program work - to return people disadvantaged in the workplace - pensions has little chance of success.

Almost one-fifth of employers also admitted that they were steps employing ex-offenders, the results have revealed.

Gerwyn Davies, ICMP, public policy counsel stated: "employer reluctance to recruit groups who have faced obstacles to employment shows that the Government still faces an enormous challenge for applicants for economically inactive benefits - especially those who have a criminal record - welfare and work."

'New initiatives of the Government, such as the programme of work shall be allowed. But more cooling on the labour market as now seems to be underway, is bad news for those on the back of the queue jobs and Ministers who might find more difficult to achieve their goals of social reform. Accordingly, the Government will have to make further efforts both to improve the employability of the target groups and addressing the attitudes of some employers to the people in these groups. ?

Work programme of the Government, which is supposed to provide support for all age groups, will be in place until at least in June, the Commons work and Select Committee warned yesterday on pensions – meaning radical action was needed to help the young unemployed.

Some 17pc employers said that they wanted to see the Government to develop a six-month internship paid the national minimum wage, co-funded by the Government and employers.

Other results of the survey:

-23pc of employers have used older people aged 18 and less than three years

-21pc recruited individuals with a history of unemployment during the past three years

-16pc of employers have recruited older persons over 65 years of age during the same period

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