DWP and CWP

[darmstadt]

DWP orders man to work without pay for company that let him go | Society | The Guardian

So this bloke was working for them and getting paid, albeit temporarily, then gets laid off and then gets told he has to go back and work for free and these organisations actually get money from the DWP:

Giving evidence, senior civil servant Jennifer Bradley confirmed that numerous charities and businesses were receiving cash payments as an incentive to take on the unemployed.

She said several DWP schemes used mandatory unpaid work as a tool to help people but stressed that it was written into the terms that charities and businesses could not use people out of work to replace their paid workforce.

So if they're getting money why can't they pay them as well? Something just doesn't add up, or is this one more way of fiddling the unemployed figures?

[SueEllen]

YES



It stinks.

[TykeMerc]

So if they're getting money why can't they pay them as well? Something just doesn't add up, or is this one more way of fiddling the unemployed figures?

Pretty much a fiddle and yes it looks deranged to me too.

I can see the benefit of people having work experience, but being expected to work without some financial reward isn't really on.

[eek]

I think there is a bit of information missing here. This person hasn't done any work for 3 years. He is to all intents and purposes unemployable so the only way he can get work is to do something to show that he can actually work.

[original PM]

“It was simply a case of: ‘Go here, work for nothing and if you don’t we’ll stop your subsistence level benefit,’” he said

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Well it's not nothing is it - it is your subsistence level benefits which you expect for free which you are earning.

[original PM]

and also

For almost three months, McArthur has spent two hours each weekday morning parading outside the plant wearing a placard reading: “Say no to slave labour”.

Two hours a day - given he has fook all better to do you would think he may put in a bit more - some weekends too?

[eek]

and also



Two hours a day - given he has fook all better to do you would think he may put in a bit more - some weekends too?

Its also only 2 hours a day. Surely he could do a full day every day

He sounds like one of those striking teachers attending the 10am march in the local city centre to provide plenty if shopping time afterwards

[original PM]

Its also only 2 hours a day. Surely he could do a full day every day

you know I think that is why he is where he is today....