Have you got any tips for newbies?
Jun 28th 2017, 4:57 pm
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Re: Have you got any tips for newbies?
This could be because they hire the unemployed, as part of their payment scheme (i.e. job seekers allowance equivalent); like a "low paid" community service to top up the unemployed peoples allowance (unemployed/welfare benefits). Either way, you are lucky to have such a service.
The local policeman told us that this scheme works very well as after it was introduced the petty crime rate went down because the unemployed were gainfully occupied.
Lots of other benefits as well as the (long term) unemployed don't forget how to get up and do a days work and some villages have started community gardens (veggies etc) on the back of this scheme .
IMO the UK would do well to have such a scheme
Jun 28th 2017, 5:25 pm
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Re: Have you got any tips for newbies?
The scheme here is that once unemployment benefit ends (Variable up to a year) you go on to social support, a bit like the UK income support. But unlike the UK in order to get income support you have to do some hours of community work as defined by the local council. Fail to turn up for the work and the benefit stops.
The local policeman told us that this scheme works very well as after it was introduced the petty crime rate went down because the unemployed were gainfully occupied.
Lots of other benefits as well as the (long term) unemployed don't forget how to get up and do a days work and some villages have started community gardens (veggies etc) on the back of this scheme .
IMO the UK would do well to have such a scheme
The local policeman told us that this scheme works very well as after it was introduced the petty crime rate went down because the unemployed were gainfully occupied.
Lots of other benefits as well as the (long term) unemployed don't forget how to get up and do a days work and some villages have started community gardens (veggies etc) on the back of this scheme .
IMO the UK would do well to have such a scheme
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A graduate made to work for her jobless benefits as a shelf stacker in Poundland is taking legal action against the Government under the Human Rights Act.
Cait Reilly, who studied geology at university, had been unable to find a job in her subject area and was claiming unemployment benefit while volunteering in a museum in the hope it would lead to a job in that sector.
But the 22-year-old had to give up the placement in order to work in the budget store under a Government scheme designed to encourage the long-term unemployed back to work.
A graduate made to work for her jobless benefits as a shelf stacker in Poundland is taking legal action against the Government under the Human Rights Act.
Cait Reilly, who studied geology at university, had been unable to find a job in her subject area and was claiming unemployment benefit while volunteering in a museum in the hope it would lead to a job in that sector.
But the 22-year-old had to give up the placement in order to work in the budget store under a Government scheme designed to encourage the long-term unemployed back to work.
Jun 28th 2017, 7:38 pm
#33
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Re: Have you got any tips for newbies?
Working as a shelf stacker in Poundland isn't "community work as defined by the local council" (unless the local council is corrupt).
