Tag Archives: workfare

NEET!

Posted on March 26, 2015 by thelovelywibblywobblyoldlady

NEET = Not in Employment, Education or Training. This is my lovely (most of the time) son Huw. He’s 19 years old. He is a NEET. It bothers everyone, except him. He’s just published his first book. http://www.amazon.com/Tomorrow-Gone-Huw-Millward-ebook/sim/B00TJ5DUIQ/2 He has … Continue reading →

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Movement to Work Scheme

Posted on March 26, 2015 by thelovelywibblywobblyoldlady

Reposted from Public & Commercial Services Union website Members urged to sign petition calling for HMRC to cease involvement in Workfare scheme – Volunteers sought for PCS working group – Branches to monitor and report numbers participating in Movement to … Continue reading →

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Recordings of how JSA claimants are spoken to – and why the DWP must be stopped from arresting witnesses

Posted on February 23, 2015 by thelovelywibblywobblyoldlady

Reposted from Kate Belgrave. The advice is worth following … NEVER go anywhere official alone. Remember it is your right to be accompanied. http://www.katebelgrave.com/2015/02/recordings-of-how-jsa-claimants-are-spoken-to-and-why-the-dwp-must-be-stopped-from-arresting-witnesses/

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We’ve stopped taking people on workfare placements except when we take them by accident…?

Posted on January 16, 2015 by thelovelywibblywobblyoldlady

Reposted from Kate Belgrave I was talking very recently with a group of people who are on a 30-hour-a-week workfare Community Work Placement (CWP) at at Haringey charity. Their workfare provider is the G4S subcontractor Urban Futures, finder of these … Continue reading →

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Ten former A4E employees guilty in fraud scam

Posted on January 16, 2015 by thelovelywibblywobblyoldlady

Reposted from Morning Star on line Fraud convictions handed down to four former employees of disgraced back-to-work recruiter A4E have illustrated the abject failure of coalition workfare schemes, campaigners said yesterday. A4E claimed £1.3 million from the Department of Work … Continue reading →

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DWP orders man to work without pay for company that let him go

Posted on November 3, 2014 by thelovelywibblywobblyoldlady

Reposted from The Guardian UNFUCKINGBELIEVABLE! John McArthur makes his one-man protest outside LAMH in Motherwell after having his jobseeker’s allowance cut. Photograph: Alan Watson/HE Media/South West News A man who was laid off at the end of his temporary job … Continue reading →

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Mutuality of obligation… the irreducible minimum.

Posted on July 22, 2014 by thelovelywibblywobblyoldlady

For some time now, I have been concerned that the workfare programme is illegal, particularly around the contract issue. So with a bit of time on my hands today, I decided to look at this in some more detail. I should … Continue reading →

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Why do right-wing people support workfare?

Posted on February 10, 2014 by thelovelywibblywobblyoldlady

Reblogged from Another Angry Voice (he’s from Yorkshire, he calls a spade a spade and I like his style!) One of the big mysteries in politics is why so many right-wing people support Iain Duncan Smith’s Stalinist Workfare schemes, which … Continue reading →

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Iain Duncan Smith: Slavery and Narcissism

Posted on January 24, 2014 by thelovelywibblywobblyoldlady

Reblogged from Another Angry Voice Iain Duncan Smith has once again demonstrated how out of touch with reality he is. In an absurdly self-congratulatory speech he compared his “welfare reforms” (which are hopelessly inefficient, economically illiterate, dishonest, unlawful,discriminatory, fraud riddled, punitive, target driven, wasteful, incompetently administered and compassionless) with the abolitionist … Continue reading →

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UK councils found to benefit from half a million hours of unpaid labour

Posted on January 3, 2014 by thelovelywibblywobblyoldlady

Bexley council said many of its unpaid placements were in library services, where paid positions were lost in 2012. Photograph: Christopher Thomond Scores of UK councils have benefited from more than half a million hours of unpaid labour through government … Continue reading →

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