Respect For the Unemployed & Benefit Claimants #MakeWorkPay @MidWalesMike Vox Political - Zero hours, zero benefits, zero enthusiasm. Why would anyone take a job on these terms? There are no pension scheme, no sickness cover, no holiday entitlement – no rights other than those laid down by health and safety regulations (which the government is trying to ditch) and the National Minimum Wage Act (also under threat from the Conservatives). Is the Department for Work and Pensions - DWP, through the Job centre plus network, forcing these conditions onto the unemployed? Such a situation might be a huge boost to employment figures, but it would also explain why average pay has fallen so drastically in recent years and the economy has failed – so abjectly – to reignite. The BBC is reporting that 14 per cent of these could not earn a basic standard of living. If Job Centres are forcing people into these jobs, via the sanctions regime, this is scandalous. Perhaps it is permitted by law, but this would only mean that the government should have a duty to ensure that jobs which are taken under the threat of sanction are capable of providing this basic standard.
Posted on: Mon, 05 Aug 2013 12:21:43 +0000
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