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Originally posted by boaby_phet
reply to post by blupblup
fact is, before she is being forced into a jsa work program , she WILL have been signing on for 6 months plus ... MINIMUM!.
All the while she has been working for free, but claming dole ... thats wrong ! you cant expect to have your hobby job (uni trained in that field or not) funded by the government and expect them not to eventuly tell you to wise up and get a real job.
Originally posted by EvanB
reply to post by blupblup
Yeah
Rupert Murdochs publications have done a great job in demonizing whole swaiths of people it seems!
Keep drinking the government propaganda kool aid folks!
Things are never as black and white with a red top as they seem.
The majority who are on the dole WANT TO WORK!
Originally posted by FFS4000
I'm sorry, but i'm a tax payer and it's my money she is enjoying, i only have one thing to say..tuff. welcome to the real world, if you want someone to blame, blame the last administration, they told you there would be streets paved with gold once you graduated, what they forgot to tell you was, going to UNI was only to hide the true unemployment figures and to belittle uni degrees.
I have had to take jobs in the past i didnt' want because i like to have money, my own money and not government hand out.
Take a job you self entitled sponger, another product of the me me me culture bread under the last Administration
Originally posted by EvanB
reply to post by blupblup
The majority who are on the dole WANT TO WORK!edit on 12-1-2012 by EvanB because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by boaby_phet
reply to post by blupblup
she voulenteers. ...
but, she is hardly wiping old folks arses... she is voulenteering doing what she likes doing, what she wants to do as a job ... she is providing NO SERVICE to the running of this country in her voulentery role!
Rayburn, who was also told by his jobcentre he would lose his benefits if he did not work without pay, said he spent almost two months stacking and cleaning shelves and sometimes doing night shifts. "They said [my JSA] would be cut off if I didn't do it."
Asked if he thought he should have been paid, he said: "I reckon they should have paid me … I was basically doing what a normal member of staff does for Tesco. I had the uniform and I was in the staff canteen. I obviously got access to the food and drinks in the staff canteen … that's what they let you do … but I got nothing else apart from that." " I was there doing it as if I walked into the store and said, 'Look I'll help'."
In April, Tesco filed pre-tax profits of £3.5bn. Like Reilly, Rayburn was not told that he had a week to refuse the placement. He was working at Tesco with two other young unemployed people who did get a job at the end of their placement.
Other large stores including Sainsbury's, Argos and Asda have been confirmed as providing work experience placements.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), jobs in the geosciences are expected to grow by 22 percent between 2006 and 2016. This is a much faster increase in employment tha the average for all occupations. Geoscientists with Master's degrees are expected to have the most employment opportunites of all degreed geoscientists. Salary estimates released by BLS for 2008 indicated that the mean annual salary for geoscientists was $89,300.
Geoscientists in the petroleum and mining industries earned the highest salaries ($95,200 - $130,620) and those in state government earned the least ($59,830). Geoscientist faculty earned a mean annual salary of $74,770 in 2008.
Additionally, according to the National Association of Colleges and Employers, average starting salaries for college graduates with geoscience bachelor's degrees were $40,786 in 2007.
Solicitors from Public Interest Lawyers in Birmingham acting on behalf of two clients involved in the mandatory work activity programme have told the Guardian that they are seeking a judicial review of the scheme, arguing their clients were being forced to work against their will, amounting to a breach of their human rights under article 4 (2) of the HRA, which states: "No one shall be required to perform forced or compulsory labour."
Jim Duffy from PIL said: "Forcing jobseekers to work for free may benefit big business but does nothing to break the cycle of unemployment and poverty. Instead it amounts to exploitation, decided at the whim of a Jobcentre Plus adviser."
Tesco said 150 people had carried out placements at its stores in the past two months. However, it told the Guardian it was under the impression that work experience placements were totally voluntary
Originally posted by davespanners
Some of the replies here are a little misleading I feel.
The girl in question was NEVER offered paid work in poundland, she was made to leave one voluntary position (working in a museum) to go and work FOR FREE at poundland for 2 weeks in the run up to Christmas
She was told that she would then get an interview for an actual paid position there which never happened.
So she wasn't taken from a voluntary position in order to be given paid work, she was taken from a voluntary position in a job that was actually somewhat relevant to her career goal to work for free in another job that wasn't
I'm not sure when exactly the government started supplying unpaid labour to private companies.edit on 12-1-2012 by davespanners because: (no reason given)edit on 12-1-2012 by davespanners because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by davespanners
I'm not sure when exactly the government started supplying unpaid labour to private companies.