The building services recruitment company’s online survey of 104 people from the construction, rail and engineering industry, revealed that the policies respondents felt would help maintain a strong employment market include: increasing the minimum wage, creating more apprenticeships and continuing to offer support for businesses to grow.
| Policy | Respondent % |
| Reducing immigration | 27.30% |
| Increasing minimum wage | 38.60% |
| Creating more apprenticeships | 36.40% |
| Cutting taxes | 9.10% |
| Support for businesses | 34.10% |
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| Gender | % of respondents |
| Male | 72.73% |
| Female | 27.27% |
| Age | % of respondents |
| Under 18 | 4.5% |
| 18-29 | 15.9% |
| 30-39 | 27.3% |
| 40-49 | 31.8% |
| 50 plus | 20.5% |
A month out from voting on 7th May, the opinion polls reveal that the two main parties are currently tied but within this demographic the Tories are clearly in the lead.
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Graphs and data sourced from Maple Resourcing
Title image courtesy of DFID – UK Department for International Development via Wikimedia Commons
Steff joined the HRreview editorial team in November 2014. A former event coordinator and manager, Steff has spent several years working in online journalism. She is a graduate of Middlessex University with a BA in Television Production and will complete a Master's degree in Journalism from the University of Westminster in the summer of 2015.
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