Employers are operating on a skills surplus rather than facing a skills gap, and must change their management practices to survive the recession, research has found. AA<A href="http://www.oxint.com/pressdetails.cfm?id=63&amp

Plans to allow mothers and fathers to share a year of parental leave, with fathers able to take six months leave after the mother's first six months, have been shelved by the government to help employers during the recession.