blanc wrote:I think the courses are there as a sop or political ploy to pretend that the govt cares about getting people back into work and will help them, at least if they'll only help themselves - the last part is where making the courses inconvenient, useless but compulsory comes in.
They wish for there to be "undeserving poor" who can be denied benefits.
Not turning up to a useless demeaning course is just cause to stop the very minimal 'benefit'. If there are 1700 applying for jobs in Asda, you can be sure the situation is not good. People don't fight for the right to work shelf filling for low pay if there are more attractive opportunities around.
I don't think I'd call £6.50 per hour low pay.
Interestingly, while teachers and others in the public sector are under constant pressure to prove outcomes, I don't hear anyone beefing about whether the course providers actually get people into jobs, or publicising info on what they cost.
Well, there's a certain brotherhood amongst the industrial scale dole scroungers, no doubt. Bankers, politicians, New Deal providers, and so on.
Workshare wouldn't work with the current wage structure, 6 people for every job means less than 8 hours work a week at minimum wage.
Better idea: more jobs.
