According to the auditor general, as the public sector represents around 30% of the total labour work force, its health and well being is crucial to the effective delivery of public services.
Part of the answer is that labour markets work particularly badly for older workers.
He said Labour would work with Teach First, which places top graduates as teachers in challenging areas, to double its graduate trainees to 2, 000.
"If .. the leader of the Labour Party does Labour Party work, out on the road or campaigning, as purely party work, then the party would be expected to pay for that, " he said.
But Labour's work and pensions spokeswoman Karen Buck said the changes would unfairly affect disabled people.
In fact, in labour-intensive work, interest charges are a small proportion of total costs.
For Labour, shadow work and pensions secretary Liam Byrne urged ministers to listen to the concerns.
In high income countries, physical activity dwindles as people use more technology and are less engaged in labour-intensive work.
For Labour, shadow work and pensions secretary Liam Byrne accused the government of presiding over an increase in unemployment.
For Labour, shadow work and pensions secretary Liam Byrne said the government's plans had thrown the retirement plans of thousands of women into chaos.
For Labour, shadow work and pensions secretary Liam Byrne called it a "very hazy and half-baked plan from the prime minister, when what we really need is a serious back-to-work programme".
When Fine Gael and Labour agreed to work as coalition partners, they issued a joint document saying voters had chosen parties "to begin mending the pieces of a fractured society, a broken economy".
As one factory boss said to me last month, wages for factory workers in China are now five times higher than in Vietnam, so he's moved all his labour-intensive work out of China.
Labour's former work and pensions minister Lord Knight challenged the effectiveness of the programme.
Over the next 40 years, the British imported labour from India to work the sugar plantations.
Families face a "triple whammy" on childcare which is hampering women's ability to work, Labour has said.
The pool, built during the depression of the early 1930s by out-of-work voluntary labour, attracts around 2, 000 visits each summer.
Labour's shadow work and pensions spokesman Liam Byrne said the long-term unemployed needed to be "working or training and not claiming".
For example, Mr Darling says he is sure "Labour is keen to work with you on social care issues and welfare reform".
She confirmed she would work with Labour to see if new laws were needed to compel former officers to co-operate with the IPCC.
That drew criticism from Labour's social work spokesman, councillor David McKie.
Despite the robust growth of the French economy, few within the government expect the 35-hour week to perform job-creating miracles for the tenth of the labour force still without work.
Before his promotion, two things explained Mr Mandelson's low standing: a reputation as a schemer, and his work during Labour's bleak years of opposition to wrench the party to the right.
Mr Maude reminded MPs that Lord Hutton - Labour's former work and pensions secretary who led the review of public sector pensions - had praised the government's offer as "generous", adding that unions should "stop holding a gun to the taxpayers' head".
But Labour's shadow work and pensions secretary, Liam Byrne, said a lot of the jobs being created "are temporary jobs, self employed or part time", and insisted "there is insecurity in the jobs market right now, that is coming home to roost".
The best way to boost national economic prosperity is to make labour and product markets work more efficiently, speed up the shift of jobs from old industries to better-paying new ones, and improve education and training to prepare workers for tomorrow's jobs.
As well as finding more work in existing activities, like agricultural labour, they also started exploring new lines of work.
Only within Mr Brown's economic remit was such exhaustive work done when Labour was in opposition.
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