Comments on: Workfare: a policy on the brink http://www.redpepper.org.uk/workfare-a-policy-on-the-brink/ Red Pepper Sat, 16 Feb 2013 06:23:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: gil http://www.redpepper.org.uk/workfare-a-policy-on-the-brink/#comment-159135 gil Fri, 15 Feb 2013 20:30:12 +0000 http://www.redpepper.org.uk/?p=9411#comment-159135 @Eric Greenwood You say you've been sent to the same company 3 times, and each time you have worked for them unpaid with teh promise of employment, but the employer won't offer you a job As you mention that you've documented everything, have you thought of trying a legal challenge to reclaim pay @NMW under the internship regulations? Have a look at this link: http://www.internaware.org/about/why-unpaid-internships-are-illegal/ @Eric Greenwood

You say you’ve been sent to the same company 3 times, and each time you have worked for them unpaid with teh promise of employment, but the employer won’t offer you a job

As you mention that you’ve documented everything, have you thought of trying a legal challenge to reclaim pay @NMW under the internship regulations?

Have a look at this link: http://www.internaware.org/about/why-unpaid-internships-are-illegal/

]]> By: Julie http://www.redpepper.org.uk/workfare-a-policy-on-the-brink/#comment-159130 Julie Fri, 15 Feb 2013 19:34:11 +0000 http://www.redpepper.org.uk/?p=9411#comment-159130 The Work Programme is a disgraceful waste of public money and needs to be scrapped now! Companies such as A4e are troughing it out of the public purse and do not improve the prospects of people sent on their programmes- the money could be much better spent on giving people the opportunity to gain recognised qualifications and to take part in training which actually leads to jobs. Sending people on unpaid work placements does nothing to improve employment prospects- all it does is provide companies with the chance to get free labour courtesy of the taxpayer, whilst also undermining wages. The Work Programme is a disgraceful waste of public money and needs to be scrapped now! Companies such as A4e are troughing it out of the public purse and do not improve the prospects of people sent on their programmes- the money could be much better spent on giving people the opportunity to gain recognised qualifications and to take part in training which actually leads to jobs. Sending people on unpaid work placements does nothing to improve employment prospects- all it does is provide companies with the chance to get free labour courtesy of the taxpayer, whilst also undermining wages.

]]> By: Eric Greenwood http://www.redpepper.org.uk/workfare-a-policy-on-the-brink/#comment-158898 Eric Greenwood Thu, 14 Feb 2013 18:09:31 +0000 http://www.redpepper.org.uk/?p=9411#comment-158898 I am on the work programme, this is my 3rd time with the same company each time they promised a job, each time they failed. I have become a outspoken critic and somewhat of an expert about A4e. I object to complusion, When people are forced to work for nothing a lot of people wont do the best work, the other problem is if the companies using them think its a roll on roll off policy. There is only 1 thing i have learned in my time at a4e and on the work programme. Cover my back, document everything. Now if there were actual jobs at the end as well that could be seen as being useful, however in a recession when a lot of companies are closing when even the ones who have the staff are holding onto them. Unions Should be fighting for their staff, we are replacing union members and as being on "workfare" we have no rights to leave. Universal Jobsmatch has become horrendous to use every wednesday jobs warehouses Spamming every week, the same jobs. all these combine to create a distrust of anything the dwp is involved in I am on the work programme, this is my 3rd time with the same company each time they promised a job, each time they failed. I have become a outspoken critic and somewhat of an expert about A4e. I object to complusion, When people are forced to work for nothing a lot of people wont do the best work, the other problem is if the companies using them think its a roll on roll off policy.

There is only 1 thing i have learned in my time at a4e and on the work programme. Cover my back, document everything. Now if there were actual jobs at the end as well that could be seen as being useful, however in a recession when a lot of companies are closing when even the ones who have the staff are holding onto them.

Unions Should be fighting for their staff, we are replacing union members and as being on “workfare” we have no rights to leave.

Universal Jobsmatch has become horrendous to use every wednesday jobs warehouses Spamming every week, the same jobs. all these combine to create a distrust of anything the dwp is involved in

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