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New Normal Laugh
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| Quote: | Last year, for example, supermarket chain Asda ran a taxpayer-funded apprenticeship programme for 25,000 people – but not one of them amounted to a new job.
"I've been telling people about all this fake 'apprenticeships' scam for ages. Perhaps now someone will listen," says Charlie Mullins, managing director of Pimlico Plumbers
"Giant employers such as Morrisons and ASDA are taking advantage of a loophole in the system whereby they can call all sorts of jobs 'apprenticeships' and reel in some nice subsidies. At best it's sharp practice. At worst, downright dishonest and deceitful. While the government is doing some good work to part-subsidise real apprenticeships – plumbing, carpentry and electrical engineering, and more modern equivalents like video production and web design – big businesses have seen an opportunity and exploited it. They are cynically robbing young people of opportunities, and putting the kibosh on attempts to re-skill UK PLC." |
Read more here: http://realbusiness.co.uk/news/why-dont-apprenticeships-work
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| Posted: 07-02-2012, 21:50 Post subject: Sponsored links |
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| Posted: 10-02-2012, 12:39 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | One of the companies involved in rolling out work experience placements is the health store Holland and Barrett , which has 1,000 such placements across 250 stores.
A full-time employee at one Holland and Barrett store, who did not want to be identified, said they believed the placements were starting to replace paid work.
"We have had a number of placements in our store and have noticed that the hours for part-time staff have been reduced. Staff are upset because we are all struggling to make ends meet," the employee said.
"The real benefactors of this scheme are the companies who receive millions of pounds worth of labour absolutely free of charge and the losers are the jobseekers who see potential jobs being filled by workfare placements for months at a time and the loyal part-timers who find their regular overtime hours savagely cut." |
Read more here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/feb/03/waterstones-ends-unpaid-work-placements?newsfeed=true
I will no longer be shopping at Holland and Barrett after reading this |
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| Posted: 11-02-2012, 09:23 Post subject: |
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As widely reported in the news today under changes due to come into effect on April 6, couples with children will have to work a total of 24 hours a week to qualify for Working Tax Credit, rather than 16 hours as at present. This links in with story above where jobseekers are being forced to work in shops to keep getting their benefits have caused the hours for part-time staff being reduced and overtime slashed, not to mention the affect it is having on the stores not taking on new staff when they can get a jobseeker to do the work at no cost to themselves.
The work Programme does not only affect those "benefit scroungers", as the government and media refer to anyone claiming benefits, being exploited by the forced labour schemes. This new sinister phase will see more and more people plunged further into poverty by the millionaires government policies, and when these part time jobs are also cut by unscrupulous employers those workers could also find themselves on jobseekers allowance being forced to work for no pay. After all what are tax credits if not state benefits? And we are constantly told all benefits claimants are workshy scroungers. |
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Following the high street chain Waterstones pulling out of the goverments Work Programme, Human rights lawyers have written to the bosses of companies including Tesco, Boots, Holland & Barrett, Sainsbury’s, Argos, Asda, Matalan, Primark, McDonald’s and Burger King stating they wish to know by 5pm on Wednesday 15 February whether the firms intend to continue participating in the government-led work experience programme.
Which the Daily Mail refer to as outrageous bullying (such is the Daily Mails twisted view they are not referring here to the governments bullying of jobseekers into working unpaid or lose their benefits, apparently the bullying is coming from the Human rights lawyers for daring to write to the companies benefiting from the exploitation)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2100257/Human-rights-lawyers-bully-firms-Governments-job-programme.html
In another promising victory for public pressure, Sainsbury’s has joined Waterstones in withdrawing from the government “Work Experience” scheme, which forces people to work unpaid for 30 hours a week for 8 weeks or lose their benefits.
http://www.boycottworkfare.org/?p=376 |
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A quote from a comment left on this Guardian article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/feb/16/disabled-unpaid-work-benefit-cuts
| Quote: | Wow - this is incredible.
A UK government proposes to force those with terminal cancer to work for nothing possibly for the rest of their lives or lose their benefits.
I never thought I would see the day. Sure we all say that the Tories are evil but this actually is truly evil. We have turned the sick (who generally can't be employed because they are sick) into slave labour. |
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