[Angus]

Originally Posted by MTVN

She doesn't have a job, she's being ordered to do this work at Poundland unpaid or lose her benefits despite the fact that she was already doing voluntary work, it's stupid

That's the rules for all people claiming JSA - it's supposed to give people some work experience, particularly those like her who've probably never done a day's work in their lives. She's not a special case, so why does she think she's exempt from the rules?

[MTVN]

Originally Posted by Angus

That's the rules for all people claiming JSA - it's supposed to give people some work experience, particularly those like her who've probably never done a day's work in their lives. She's not a special case, so why does she think she's exempt from the rules?

She was already doing voluntary work experience, and in the sector where she actually wants to work full time - a heck of a lot more useful than sweeping floors at Poundland

[Angus]

Originally Posted by MTVN

She was already doing voluntary work experience, and in the sector where she actually wants to work full time - a heck of a lot more useful than sweeping floors at Poundland

Sadly, the Jobcentre is more interested in "punishing" people for having the audacity to be out of work - their assumption being that all the unemployed are a bunch of workshy, lazy scroungers. Therefore, they devise ways to ensure that claiming benefits is as unpleasant as possible in the misguided belief that people will stop claiming and start working. Just one major flaw in their logic - there are dozens of applicants for every job going, so those that really want to work are being punished along with the bone idle scroungers.

Poundland is just one of thousands of employers who participate in the "punishment" since they have the benefit of free labour whilst the Government can appease the masses by demonstrating that those claiming benefits are not getting something for nothing.

[MTVN]

Originally Posted by Angus

Sadly, the Jobcentre is more interested in "punishing" people for having the audacity to be out of work - their assumption being that all the unemployed are a bunch of workshy, lazy scroungers. Therefore, they devise ways to ensure that claiming benefits is as unpleasant as possible in the misguided belief that people will stop claiming and start working. Just one major flaw in their logic - there are dozens of applicants for every job going, so those that really want to work are being punished along with the bone idle scroungers.

Poundland is just one of thousands of employers who participate in the "punishment" since they have the benefit of free labour whilst the Government can appease the masses by demonstrating that those claiming benefits are not getting something for nothing.

I actually completely agree with that