leicsmac Posted 17 February 2012 Share Posted 17 February 2012 Look boys...if you want shelf-stackers, just advertise for them in the normal way and pay them minimum wage eh? Trying this shit is only going to be a PR disaster. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-17066420 Anyone else think this is just an excuse to try and score some cheap labour? Maybe I'm a cynic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rincewind Posted 17 February 2012 Share Posted 17 February 2012 It's the goverment encouraging companies to do this. If it was a mistake then the person responsible for drafting up the ad should be fired. The ad would be seen by more than one person before going to print and the 'mistake' should have been noticed. I don't mind doing shelf stacking but I want paying for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain... Posted 17 February 2012 Share Posted 17 February 2012 It all seems a bit odd, you don't get paid but you will still get your full benefits, I guess it is an incentive to get companies giving people work and experience and a greater chance of employment, but this should not be for companies like Tescos to exploit, it should be for smaller companies to take a risk free gamble on an unemployed chap. I think that the possibility of doing it for 6 months though will lead to exploitation and abuse. It should be a month at most, that is enought ime to decide if you want to keep someone on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rincewind Posted 17 February 2012 Share Posted 17 February 2012 True they would take someone on for five months then tell them they dont need them or they are not up to thge job then set someone else on. Its an employers world now. They want to make a profit as its hard for them too. Still wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ithuriel Posted 17 February 2012 Share Posted 17 February 2012 Just a way for companies to replace staff with free labour and the government should know better. If there is a place for nightshift shelf stackers it should be a paid job, not a freebie by the benefits office forcing someone to work for very little. I will place a bet that whoever got placed on one of these was told if they quit they would lose their benefits. When i was laid off i did a couple of courses whilst looking for a job. One of these courses could have lead to a job but what most of the peeps who joined and then left the course did not know was that if they failed to finish the course they lost their right to claim job seekers allowance. Only me and four others finished the course, though i got my old job back shortly after anyway, i bet those peeps that did not finish were really screwed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zingari Posted 17 February 2012 Share Posted 17 February 2012 BOGOF Tesco !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave the caveman Posted 17 February 2012 Share Posted 17 February 2012 It's not a bad idea if it wasn't so easily exploited. Typical left wing fluff really. Reasonable intentions but stupidly naive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain... Posted 17 February 2012 Share Posted 17 February 2012 It's not a bad idea if it wasn't so easily exploited. Typical left wing fluff really. Reasonable intentions but stupidly naive. Odd you would accuse this government of implementing left-wing policies, maybe the Lib dems have had some influence after all. To be honest I'm not sure where it lies on the political spectrum, but it is so easy to exploit I really do worry about this government's ability to actual think and understand the world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finnegan Posted 17 February 2012 Share Posted 17 February 2012 It's not a bad idea if it wasn't so easily exploited. Typical left wing fluff really. Reasonable intentions but stupidly naive. Oh look, you don't know what you're talking about again. Funny that. It's a rehash of a Labour scheme that was implemented and well policed to provide work (that's work, not slave labour) to the long term unemployed. Incidentally, Labour's scheme (FJF) made it mandatory for fund recipient companies to be providing a service with benefits to the community and not just stacking shelves for a multi-national. It was not abused. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leicfox Posted 17 February 2012 Share Posted 17 February 2012 So it's work experience then. You work nights at Tesco and still get paid Jobseekers' at £53.45 per week for under-25s and £67.50 for over-25s. It's not a bad idea for young people aged between say 17-19 with no working experience at all, if their not working like 40hrs and only doing 1 night a week but for any one else it's pointless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leicfox Posted 17 February 2012 Share Posted 17 February 2012 Who pays the benefit money, Would it be Tesco or the government ? If it's Tesco you can see why both parties would welcome it. Tesco get some poor sod working no doubt 30hrs+ for under £70 and the government save money not paying job seekers. It's a win win situation for them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave the caveman Posted 17 February 2012 Share Posted 17 February 2012 Oh look, you don't know what you're talking about again. Funny that. It's a rehash of a Labour scheme that was implemented and well policed to provide work (that's work, not slave labour) to the long term unemployed. Incidentally, Labour's scheme (FJF) made it mandatory for fund recipient companies to be providing a service with benefits to the community and not just stacking shelves for a multi-national. It was not abused. Is that the same fjf that was scrapped after about a month after having been used by about eight people? It was not abused because nobody knew it existed and then it didn't exist. I must admit I don't know where this New idea came from, I just assumed it was lib dem because its so crap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finnegan Posted 17 February 2012 Share Posted 17 February 2012 FJF was used by ****ing loads of people. JCP pushed it on to everyone claiming JSA for six months or more under the age of 24, or twelve months and more if older. It was scrapped by the Tories after the election to be rebranded as their own idea, Work Program. Which, essentially, was about free labour for private corporations. It'd help if you knew what you were talking about before you gobbed off. Pipe down eh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bellend Sebastian Posted 17 February 2012 Share Posted 17 February 2012 Yeah, and the sandwich selection in Tesco is shit now. Why'd they get rid of Chorizo and Chicken? Madness Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I am Rod Hull Posted 17 February 2012 Share Posted 17 February 2012 Yeah, and the sandwich selection in Tesco is shit now. Why'd they get rid of Chorizo and Chicken? Madness You could always buy the ingredients and make one yourself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daggers Posted 17 February 2012 Share Posted 17 February 2012 Yeah, and the sandwich selection in Tesco is shit now. Why'd they get rid of Chorizo and Chicken?Madness And yet we also live in a world where the Tesco's 'they' put chicken in rice and call it sushi. Chicken!? Yeh you heard me, sister. Chicken fvcking sushi. Total bastards. Yeah, and the sandwich selection in Tesco is shit now. Why'd they get rid of Chorizo and Chicken?Madness And yet we also live in a world where the Tesco's 'they' put chicken in rice and call it sushi. Chicken!? Yeh you heard me, sister. Chicken fvcking sushi. Total bastards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bellend Sebastian Posted 17 February 2012 Share Posted 17 February 2012 You could always buy the ingredients and make one yourself. I'm sorry, I don't understand. Make...one...myself......no, no idea what you're on about, old boy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Doctor Posted 17 February 2012 Share Posted 17 February 2012 I'm sorry, I don't understand. Make...one...myself......no, no idea what you're on about, old boy It's like asking the missus to make you one, but without the "make me a sandwich" bit at the start. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I am Rod Hull Posted 17 February 2012 Share Posted 17 February 2012 They are always better when someone else makes them though.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corky Posted 17 February 2012 Share Posted 17 February 2012 Don't know what these people are moaning about. Pay me £0 a week and they can call me what they want. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trav Le Bleu Posted 17 February 2012 Share Posted 17 February 2012 Oh look, you don't know what you're talking about again. Funny that. It's a rehash of a Labour scheme that was implemented and well policed to provide work (that's work, not slave labour) to the long term unemployed. Incidentally, Labour's scheme (FJF) made it mandatory for fund recipient companies to be providing a service with benefits to the community and not just stacking shelves for a multi-national. It was not abused. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I am Rod Hull Posted 17 February 2012 Share Posted 17 February 2012 Trav... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daggers Posted 17 February 2012 Share Posted 17 February 2012 Trav... Since when did posties become proficient at delivery? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DANGEROUS TIGER Posted 18 February 2012 Share Posted 18 February 2012 It's a bloody good idea for those who don't really want to work, and are happy to live of the state My stepson should do this, the lazy 25yr old bastard. He thinks it great fun!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acooling08 Posted 18 February 2012 Share Posted 18 February 2012 I'm on my 7th week of unpaid work, but I still get my £50 a week JSA. So really I'm no better off than if I was to sit at home all day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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