Flexible New Deal Scandal discovers that Jobcentre Plus is ignoring the law in regards to sanctions on Flexible New Deal.
["Jobcentre Plus ignores law: continues to unlawfully sanction"] | 7 Comments!Today we announce a start of a new campaign called “Unlawful Sanctions”. This campaign has been setup with its own website to highlight and fight the Jobseekers Allowance sanction regime with the campaign stating that benefit sanctions are an unlawful attack on the poor.
["Social Security: JSA Benefit Sanctions are Unlawful!"] | 48 Comments!Flexible New Deal scandal reports on how jobseekers on the Flexible New Deal are getting fucked over for doing more hours of work per week than on New Deal and getting between 10p more and £3 less than 12 years ago at the beginning of New Deal.
["Jobseekers’ Work Experience: a bad deal"] | 10 Comments!Changes: You can now rate posts and comments! Greeting messages are now viewable (were there but just hidden, worked on my IE not FF,Opera,Safari) This was due to template missing the wp_footer function – where the plugin functions were hooked on to.
["Site updates"] | 4 Comments!So, does the Government have a point that Work for Your Benefit pilot is a “work placement” and not a “job”? This technicality allows participants to not be paid the National Minimum Wage and to displaced other jobs. Flexible New Deal Scandal investigates…
["Work for Your Benefit: Work Placement or Job?"] | 10 Comments!Flexible New Deal scandal reveals how Work for Your Benefit scheme is unenforceable. An interesting foresight and possible defence of UK Social Security legislation.
["Workfare: Unenforceable"] | 39 Comments!Why are MP’s okay with the proposed idea of workfare via the planned Work for Your Benefit pilots? You would have thought that more MP’s would have expressed concerns about the direction the country is moving to. Flexible New Deal scandal has today summarised the reasons why MP’s have generally been in favour of this [...]
["Workfare: Why MP’s are ok with it"] | 4 Comments!Reed in Partnership has recently been inspected by Ofsted under their ”Provider Led Pathways to Work” contract. Oh dear, Grade 4 (lowest) stamped everywhere. Job Outcome rates? On the compulsory “training” course only 7% found employment. Of that 7% of people, only 15% found sustainable jobs making approx a sustainable job rate of 1.127% (that is [...]
["Reed in Partnership: The final nail?"] | 5 Comments!Flexible New Deal scandal blog (this one) is now on twatter! I mean twitter…
["Flexible New Deal on twitter"] | 3 Comments!Gordon Brown’s recent speech on Building Britain’s Digital Future has stirred up some confusion amongst jobseekers and news reporters. Tim Lott of The Guardian was probably the biggest news article on the speech and the future of unemployment with the headline “The dole queue is doomed” and tag-line “Gordon Brown has announced that soon jobseekers [...]
["Dole queue is here to stay: MyGov will not replace signing on"] | 19 Comments!I was never a fan of the old Jobcentre Plus job search website although I used it regularly to seek employment. Many issues with it included: Although the job reference code is passed within the page URL; when the site timeout within a few minutes it forgets what job advert/search you were doing and begins [...]
["Direct.gov.uk: why the new job search website needs to be replaced"] | 12 Comments!Today, Flexible New Deal scandal will reveal the extent of sanctions that apply to those who fail to comply to the regulations. These are more increased than the extent of the sanctions available to those on Flexible New Deal Stage 4. The regulations (Jobseeker’s Allowance (Work for Your Benefit Pilot Scheme) Regulations 2010) are to [...]
["Workfare: Work for Your Benefit Sanctions exposed"] | 9 Comments!
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