Govt announcement today: People have to look for work

[TESTPASS 10]

About bloody time too - I've become sick of looking at the workshy scroungers waxing fat off of my sweat.

 

Get a job you idle swine!

 

Yep but when they halve your wages to stick joe blocks in a phantom job to work along side you it will be a diff story.

 

as pointed out we are going to have to invent work as the numbers dont add up between jobs and people needing them. unless this country went daft and got rid of everyone that were not born here to gain back jobs for the 3 milion going to need them. maybe thats the big picture ? get rid of the poles that take money out of the country by forcing the unemployed into tho's jobs and giving them tax breaks to make the work more palletable.

 

I think that this witch hunt of people on benifit is going to bite the Gov in the bum. it will create that much social unrest in this country that we will be begging for them to get us back to where we are now. if you think the far right are gaining popularity now, then wait until you have 3 million new ears looking for a voice thats talking their langage, then see if it was worth it.

 

its all going to go pear shaped if this lot isnt handled right.

[green_god 10]

TESTPASS

 

your post is very good, and should employment shoot up the far right could very well capilalise which is frightening for everyone. Its all well and good making people on benefits lifes hell, but should major unrest occur, everyone is affected.

 

Very scary.

 

Right I'm gong back to my congestion charging post to bate some people

[slimsid2000 10]

New measures will be announced today that people will have to find work/update their skills or loose JSA. It appears though that updating your skills ,i.e. doing a short course or updating your CV will be enough to allow continuation of benefits.

 

Will these new changes be enough to reduce the ethos of worklessness in this country??

 

I guess nothing short of a return of the workhouse will be enough for some people but that is just they way they are. At the end of the day benefit claimants are just an easy target which is no doubt why the Government devote so much enery to having a go at them rather than facing up to the fact that they have recked the economy themselves. The first rule of politics is never take the blame. That's just how it goes.

[slimsid2000 10]

Is this just a knee jerk reaction because of Shannon Matthews parents being in the spotlight?

 

No but the timing is no coincidence.

[slimsid2000 10]

Any employer will always look at a) an applicant's suitability for the job and b) their track record.

 

There's just something in the concept that a person will take 'a job' eg filling shelves versus another person who won't take 'a job' because they're holding out for a better one that says something.

 

However, what it says is....(imo).....if that person is looking for a relatively lowish position, it would say that they're eager for work. If it's for a more senior position, it says that they have identity/confidence/desperation issues.

 

Would you take a person on for a £50,000 job if their stop-gap had been minimum wage? Or would you take a different person on in preference, if they'd been unemployed since their last £50,000 position for six months?

It's a tricky one!

 

I would have thought the person who had worked in the meantime but if there are really jobs around paying that kind of salary why are people choosing to live on $60 per week benefit instead?

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[espadrille 10]

Has anyone worked out how much it will cost the tax-payer to force all the single mums back into work ?

 

It seems a single mum who takes a minimum wage job would be entitled to £175 a week child care allowance on a 40 hour week. How does this compare with the benefits she receives whilst not working ?

 

But it isnt just the financial benefits though.

 

If a child is in school from 8.50 until 3.15 ish, then there are a few hours that the parent can work.

When mine were little, I worked in the evening in a call centre when my husband came home. It was a rush to get there for 5.30 but it worked for 2 and a half years.There are lots of jobs that young parents can do .Dinner ladies are a good example(sorry ,lunch time supervisors).

 

This helps reduce isolation, which a lot of Mothers who stay at home face.

[happyhippy 11]

But it isnt just the financial benefits though.

 

If a child is in school from 8.50 until 3.15 ish, then there are a few hours that the parent can work.

When mine were little, I worked in the evening in a call centre when my husband came home. It was a rush to get there for 5.30 but it worked for 2 and a half years.There are lots of jobs that young parents can do .Dinner ladies are a good example(sorry ,lunch time supervisors).

 

This helps reduce isolation, which a lot of Mothers who stay at home face.

 

But by the same token, many women like to be a stay-at-home mum, whether with a working partner or not. The stay-at-home 'parent' was often held up as the ultimate standard bearer of 'basic values' when with a full-time working partner.

 

What I find abhorrent is that a non-working parent who has a partner who works is deemed better than a parent who is on his/her own. Apparently they're better.

 

I truly admire your determination, but I also remember a time not so long since where a home environment was valued, and where children were looked after by parents rather than childminders.

 

If you regularly cook a real home meal (one which takes several hours of preparation, cooking and watching) which takes four or five hours, and be elsewhere working, you'll be a rare breed. It's that sort of stuff which makes being a parent.

 

Children need parents, not babysitters. In fact I believe that parenting is the most important thing in the world.

[grafikhaus74 10]

I wish we could drop this myth about there being 500,000 jobs available.

On the, er, most popular website about my, sheffield, jobs etc. the desperation is incredible.

They put up jobs way past the closing date, often, often duplicate the same job several times and - incredibly - have started putting multiple ads up (for Sheffield, Rotherham etc.) for that Red driving school scam.

Now if the powers-that-be are going to include the 'train to be a plumber, £750 a week in IT' as situations vacant it's all becoming a farce.

Anyway, I think most people realise that any statistics that ZanuLabor quote are pure and blatant lies.

[grafikhaus74 10]

...and another thing. Under the 'Education/Training' section (now that is a booming sector), there are loads of posts for 'tutors' of 'basic skills', people with 'barriers to employment' blah, blah.

In other words, to try and teach people who have passed through formal education having learned absolutely nothing.

Bit rich when a lot of teachers are reaching their early, gold-plated retirements having been poor at their jobs, and now they're having to pay people to pick up the slack.

[craigmason 10]

some people on here would do good to read this

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7753037.stm

[Tradescanthia 10]

DONT GENERALISE, I'm having to go through medicals/employment advice interviews despite my GP signing me off. I have had surgery for lung cancer and see specialists regularly. I am 60 in 5 months time but would rather shovel **** all day than live with cancer and draw benefits.

 

boutiquechoc, you talk a load of <blank>.