Currently this government is doing a
great job in helping their millionaire corporate friends to cut their
labour costs, all part of the drive for a low wage economy. The new legislation that will come into force on April
2014, will take workfare, (unpaid forced labour) to a new level of
exploitation. Job centres will be able to hand out tougher community
service orders than the courts. What will your crime have been? Why
the heinous act of being unable to find work. They say that slavery
was abolished, but what do you call being forced to work without pay,
for a rich multi-national company such as G4S? The simple truth is
that those who call this society a democracy are liars or fools, or perhaps both.
This from Boycott Workfare:
Read the full article HERE:Currently EOS, Maximus, Learn Direct, Reed in Partnership, ESG, G4S (tax dodging supremos) and Interserve (they rely on prayer & financial support from Christians) are all inviting bids from voluntary sector ‘partners’ to provide Community Work Placements in a ‘real working environment’ for up to 30 weeks, for up to 30 hours per week. In other words, forced unpaid labour for people who have not found ‘sustained employment’ while on the Work Programme.The criteria for being sent on a Community Work Placement are ‘lack of motivation‘ (for example a reluctance to be exploited in no pay, low pay jobs) and/or ‘lack of work experience‘. Claimants will have to do these placements alongside ‘supported job search’: the exhausting and pointless process of endlessly looking for non-existent employment opportunities. As blogger Johnny Void says: “This new scheme represents 780 hours unpaid work, over two and a half times higher than the maximum community service penalty that can be handed out by the courts. And this is just for the crime of being unable to find a job.” Read the rest of this entry »
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