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Little welcome for £2,500 golden hellos

By Andrew Taylor and Alex Barker

Published: January 12 2009 22:11 | Last updated: January 12 2009 22:11

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Job talks: prime minister Gordon Brown and business secretary Lord Mandelson take questions at Monday’s employment summit in London
Business offered a lukewarm response on Monday to plans to pay employers to hire the unemployed.

They argued that the subsidy was better suited to a recovery than a severe downturn.

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