We want to abolish work for your benefit/workfare schemes in the UK. People selling their labour should be fairly remunerated for their work at the normal level paid for the tasks they perform and treated in the same way as a standard employee with full rights and representation if requested. These are the basic rights… [Read more…]
A 2008 government (DWP) investigation into workfare programmes in the USA, Canada & Australia concluded that unpaid Workfare was ineffective, unsuccessful and should not be replicated in the UK. In fact it showed that America was already turning its back on Workfare in favour of softer solutions such as paying a subsidised wage. Workfare does… [Read more…]
There’s a great example (there are plenty to choose from) of the pro-workfare brigade’s disingenuity about workfare’s success in this 1996 New York Times article. In it, New York mayor Rudy Giuliani’s office claimed that his New York City workfare programme was a real success – ”saving the lives” of people on welfare by putting… [Read more…]
People taking up work experience places – providing up to 30 hours a week of unpaid labour – face losing benefits if they quit Shiv Malik Britain’s jobless young people are being sent to work for supermarkets and budget stores for up to two months for no pay and no guarantee of a job, the… [Read more…]
By Simon Walters The feckless unemployed will be forced to take part in a punishing U.S.-style ‘workfare’ scheme involving gardening, clearing litter and other menial tasks for just £1 an hour in a new crackdown on scroungers. And if they fail to turn up on time or work hard they will be stripped of… [Read more…]
February 15, 2012 by Wp
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