Being sent on workfare? Tell us where using the Name & Shame form.
Please note, we are in the process of updating this page. If you notice anything that needs changing, or know of a workfare provider not listed, please use our Name and Shame form or email us with the details and as much evidence as possible.
The tide is turning and following massive public pressure, we are pleased to say the following companies and organisations say they will no longer take part in workfare:
◦TK Maxx
◦Sainsbury’s
◦Waterstones
◦Shelter
◦Marie Curie
◦99p stores
◦Maplin
◦Oxfam
◦Mind - see also their latest statement here
◦BHS
◦Burger King – although they have only mentioned one of the five workfare schemes
◦HMV
◦Boots
◦Body Shop
◦Holiday Inn
◦Cancer Research
◦Sense
◦The Children’s Society
◦Wilkinson’s
◦PDSA
The following have suspended their involvement. We look forward to them confirming that they will stop involvement in any of the government’s workfare schemes:
◦Matalan
The particularly misleading ones
◦Poundland have said they will pull out of the Work Progamme but remain in the Work Experience Scheme
◦Tesco are still involved in the scheme
◦Argos – despite telling the Guardian that they had suspended involvement, they are now back at it
◦Superdrug – see their tweet which claimed they’d suspended involvement but we’ve since has evidence they are using the Work Experience scheme again
◦Scope suspended its involvement in February but is now back at it. See here and here.
Pizza Hut say they have the scheme under review. Age UK is investigating.
The following have stated that they are not involved:
◦Miss Selfridge
◦Mr Gleam wrote to tell us that they have never been part of the scheme.
◦Friends of the Earth – see their statement on Twitter
Hold them to it!
Ask in your local stores to confirm that no one is on DWP “Work Experience”, Mandatory Work Activity, the Community Action Programme, Sector Based Work Academies, or Work Programme placements: all of these are forced unpaid work, or workfare schemes. Let us know if you hear otherwise.
http://www.boycottworkfare.org/?page_id=16
