and that's why job offers are so small, people have no interest in getting a job unless it meets so stupidly high criteria they are extremely unliked to meet.
Why would they offer you a job if your rubbish.
Bleeping furious right now!
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and that's why job offers are so small, people have no interest in getting a job unless it meets so stupidly high criteria they are extremely unliked to meet.
Why would they offer you a job if your rubbish.
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Great idea. Honestly. However the only obstacle would be if the OAP's could trust the local jobseeker sweaty oiks in their houses.
Don't let yourself down by painting All the unemployed as wasters. The only thing I needed to sort myself out was a job, Everything else just fell into place.
Again, the money is for you to go out and look for work (roughly £50-60) the other half is to live on (roughly the same amount again)
It's not a pre-paid work voucher for ASDA's
Still doesn't matter. If it's a large company it won't even got to MD and is likely to go to different departments anyway.
Last time I applied I had three interviews for same company in different departments and got one.
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Whilst I do accept that those on benefits should be contributing to society. Personally I'd rather see the OP's partner being told to volunteer at an old persons befriending scheme (or something similar) for 16 hours a week whilst having to apply for X numbers of jobs with the rest of her time in order to qualify for benefits.
It's also worth remembering that the OP accepts that schemes like this can be valuable in helping people get back to work, he is concerned that
A: she is being asked to work excessive (illegally long?) hours which will have a serious negative impact on her ability to find permanent work and relieve society of the burden of supporting her.
B: That this has been thrust upon her at a stage where to have expected her to have found work is unrealistic. I recently went for a promotion at work and the recruitment process has taken 6 weeks, which I consider pretty normal. Surely even those that believe this sort of scheme is right can accept that she should be given a little more than 4 weeks to sort herself out with work before being given a placement?
This doesn't make sense... The companies could create the job that she is already doing and pay them a decent market rate, she would pay tax, NI and have some self worth.
Instead she gets £40 or whatever it is from the government and comes home crying?
It is heavily discounted labour akin to modern slavery.
Who benefits from it? Taxpayers are getting nothing of value, only some private companies.
I know, most people on the dole are wasters - but to class EVERYONE as one is stupid some people actually WANT a job and a better life from it instead of sitting in a dump of a town wasting hours away for £200 a month.
But jobcenters dont care, nor do these companys that is the problem
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I would work the 2 months and then see what happens.. surely if you are actively job seeking and essentially working the 2 months for 'free' you would be able to have am/pm off for interviews??
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The companies are paid to take them on as well are they not?
Edit: Genuinely I think you should employ her on a self employed baisis for a while, not too much but enough to get them off her back and allow her to use free time searching for work.
Edit: Genuinely I think you should employ her on a self employed baisis for a while, not too much but enough to get them off her back and allow her to use free time searching for work.
Not with those hours. unless you sepnd all your much hard earned peanuts on prozac or somthing
You're one of the lucky ones mate, I actually went for a customer service job at a company, and during the interview they asked me why I had applied for this job when I had marketing experience, I found it difficult to respond as all I had going through my head was:
A) I need money!
B) The job centre made me
No, all they pay is the insurance - and i bet most dont even do that
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Don't let yourself down by painting All the unemployed as wasters. The only thing I needed to sort myself out was a job, Everything else just fell into place.
I know most are well intentioned good folk, but how do you differentiate?
There is no doubt about it. A fair few of my local jobseeker hangouts are weed smoking, cider drinking, burgling no-goods who i wouldn't let in my house to put up a calendar, let alone a sheet of wallpaper.
They can everyone is entitled to do a certain number of volountary hours (as long as it doesn't intefere with your jobseeking), or where you suggesting the government should get in on the 'slave labour' wheeze too, and force people to do it ?
She would be receiving benefits anyway. Right now she is working for what is basically a company flouting minimum wage laws, which is leaving her in a position that makes it impossible to get another job.
The OP's girlfriend is not benefiting from this. if she were working 7.5 hours a week, she would be earning £1.33 an hour with no chance of improvement.
The government is not benefiting from this, they are paying her benefits and put her in a position that makes it VERY hard to get a job and actually pay INTO the system.
Only ones benefiting is the companies owners. No morals makes free labor an instant win.
I know, most people on the dole are wasters - but to class EVERYONE as one is stupid some people actually WANT a job and a better life from it instead of sitting in a dump of a town wasting hours away for £200 a month.
But jobcenters dont care, nor do these companys that is the problem
Whos classing everyone as one?
Yeah because its 200 a month for life. No it's a two month trial that you get an interview for at the end.
So even if you don't get a job, you get a reference, you get job experience and interview practice.
If you don't care or try you'll get none of that.
If they just want free workers, why even employ 5% that's a lot of staff over a year.