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Lets get this straight is it fook going down , they class striking someone of or sanctioning them as a tick of the unemployment list this is not unemployment going down , I was in the Job Centre yesterday and it was the busiest ive seen it in years , Most have sanctions and still have to sign or the sanction lasts longer.
Remember you can claim hardship though
Remember you can claim hardship though
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Plus, this years tranche of 16 year old school leavers who don't go onto further education doesn't exist, as they now have to stay in education/approved apprenticeships until age 18. So for the next couple of years you have the previously unemployed reaching state retirement age dropping off the figures, but not being replaced with the usual 16 year old dropouts with nowhere to go.
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Yeah that as well
On the board in the Job Centre they had Work Experience for IKEA , So IKEA have jobs but want FREE labour |
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Also you have to assemble your own work desk
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More than likely what jokers , imagine wokring in ikea for free and they are heading to the boozer ( unlikely at ikea ) after work and you go on payday na lads a do this for free
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My stepdaughters mate got a job at a local supermarket along with 40 others as an Internet Shopper. Tuesday through to Sunday 4am - 8am minimum wage. You've got to run a car to get there at that time and after deductions your earning £150 for a 6 day week, getting up at 3am every morning except Mondays.
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Can`t she go on her bike if it`s a local supermarket Tommy. I know it`s pitch black but how local is local?
Another idea would be if there are 40 new starters they could arrange car share or some arrangement. She won`t be paying tax or NI on 24 hours a week@ minimum wage. There are positives. |
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Sorry got that wrong about minimum wage, it actually pays 6.70 an hour so there is N.I. The girl has done the job for about 3 months and it fits in with her studies so fair play to her. It was just an example of the type of jobs now on offer. She actually drives to the store from about 7 miles away, the store is local to me not her.
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Only a few pence of NI Tommy 94p. Yes i agree with the crud hours of availability being offered these days, plus if someone had to take a 2nd part time job to top up to get the equivalent of full time hours then there are Tax/NI contribution implications that can follow.
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How many are on zero hours contracts compared to 10 years ago?
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TommyBarnes 07 Aug 14 09:21
Sorry got that wrong about minimum wage, it actually pays 6.70 an hour so there is N.I. The girl has done the job for about 3 months and it fits in with her studies so fair play to her. It was just an example of the type of jobs now on offer. She actually drives to the store from about 7 miles away, the store is local to me not her. 4am-8am is a great shift imo Dont see how its any different to people who get up at stupid oclock and go for a run/gym/dog walk before work. £150p/w its only part time. Doesnt sound like the most stressful job in the world or one that needs a bunch of qualifications. |
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A problem often forgotten is that working odd hours or shift work/nights is that your housemates, neighbours or workmen are not sympathetic to your required sleep structure.
Students need to get the balance right. |
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I voulnteered to work for my dole money this time last year, i done the 8 weeks and worked well, i missed 2 days, now granted they were mondays, but the cu nts never took me on, i can assure u i wont be voulnterring again, they just use and abuse people
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thats £150 in a country where tax avoidance footballers are on a million a month and we pay for camerons [worth 30 million ]mortgage,paper clips and hobknobs,
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the bhouys .........my son had a similar experience ,he had an interview for an 8 weeks work in some shopping center miles away from where we live, it took him nearly 2 hours to get there and they wanted him to work the 8 weeks for feck all( volunteering ) the fares would have been at least a £5 a day ,but they guaranteed him an interview after the 8 weeks by which time they would have had another lot of "mugs" who did 8 weeks work for feck all ,
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its all about budgets bhoys
some fat (unt of a manager lapping it up because he saved so many hours and gets a nice bonus for it. some things some (unts will do eh |
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i rememeber you saying that last year bhoys , fck them dont work for free if they ahve jobs tehre at least minimum wage whould be paid
its slave labour buttered down to the new name work experience , you do work experience when your 14-15 at school ffs |
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have* there* would*
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they want bag baggers in sainsburys for work experience also , so ikea and sainsburys have joined the list of free jobs
this is beyond a joke now , i would rather cut my neighbours grass than work for these fkcers for free |
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yes it is appalling exploitation
If unemployment is going down, it is only from the appalling levels Cameron's own policies drove it up to I remember our town centre and job centre in 2008...before the Credit Crunch I look at it now and it looks like we have experienced war the difference is that marked yes the Credit Crunch did for us The rich have shielded themselves against this, the poor, weak most vulnerable always end up carrying the can |
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Even though our living standards have benefitted by cheap imports
in other ways I have never seen this country so poor |
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I seen a guy who must be 55 hes an ex supply teacher and they ant him to do work exerience in a charity shop , he said ive worked since i was 12 , thats bad
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its unbelievablebut this is what the Tories want.....they want inequality back they seek to make the rich richer...the poor poorer |
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I have never ever seen so much lack of opportunity as we have now
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There is plenty jobs selling insulation etc but if you chap 500 doors and no sales you dont get paid
Try selling insulation at a door is quite hard imo , if someone needs if they get it |
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by the way my son told em to shove it up their @rse! and I agreed ,although I did think the language he used was too mild
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I agree TheChaser..of course they do
Foyleswar |
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agree with ebulgery here! these khoonts are trying to kick us back to Edwardian times !
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give your son a pat on the back |
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talking about Edwardian times ........I remember watching a t.v programme about the Edwardian upper classed and their treatment of what they considered the lower or working classes ......an Edwardian upper class family were on a picnic in the countryside on a very hot day and were being pestered by wasps around the food ,so they ordered the help /footman to sit about 50ft away with a pot of jam to keep the wasps away from them , the rotten bastrds
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did the footman doing for free though
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Why rely on someone else to give you a job. Start up a business and go self employed then the only person you'll have to blame is yourself if it doesn't work.
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foyleswarThe sad truth is we are a declining economically, we have been now since the 60's when I left school One problem we have always had..is our own divisiveness and greed, everything we do has to be done for self interest not for a society as a whole, as the Germans are prepared to do, see the difference in results Modern Tory policy since Thatcher is to dismantle society. Government want to govern by not governing. They claim it benefits us, but it never has, just increases greed. We seriously need to reduce our population, we need do not need a growing population in a country that is growing poorer by the year. I am amazed we have held it together for so long. Hope it sees me out. But the lack of any hope in our society concerns me now, there is no future for us. |
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bix • August 7, 2014 6:36 PM BST
Why rely on someone else to give you a job. Start up a business and go self employed then the only person you'll have to blame is yourself if it doesn't work. I see lots of small business round me. How much money do they make? There are only so many entrepreneurial opportunities. This is not a sign of wealth, it is a sign of poverty, we just feed off each other. Somebody suggested on here once we all become window cleaners....2 1/2 million window cleaners FFS! In fact there is not enough work for the ones we have, it is the first thing people economise on. |
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agreed ebul fear for the future of my teenage sons ,my daughter who is in her 20s has 4 jobs is renting because she cannot afford to buy a place of her own and is off to australia for a year hoping to earn enough to get a decent a mount for at least a deposit either here or abroad for a house
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bix
07 Aug 14 18:36 Joined: 08 Dec 02 | Topic/replies: 2,915 | Blogger: bix's blog Why rely on someone else to give you a job. Start up a business and go self employed then the only person you'll have to blame is yourself if it doesn't work. Need cash to start though , im in the midddle of something just now but it wont work over night |
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Everyone a window cleaner
racing your neighbour to the next street and undercutting them just for a loaf of bread |