£1bn scheme will 'provide hope' to young jobless

FOX_HOUND

globalds wrote: »

It does seem fairly inefficient though.

1 billion is a fair bit of cash.

160,000 is quite a few people but by no means anything but a fraction of the problem and 6 months is not very long.

Apprenticeships I would agree would be fantastic news.That would be the kind of response I would think German or Japanese politicians would be proposing.

This looks like a British kind of answer to the problem.....Unfortunately.

Do you know it would probably be as useful to teach any of them that wanted to drive ...At least they would have something to offer a future employer.

And it says nothing about older workers it might replace or exclude from the jobs market in certain sectors.

wantsajob

Yep cheap young labour = bye bye employees 50 or over.

globalds

FOX_HOUND wrote: »

And it says nothing about older workers it might replace or exclude from the jobs market in certain sectors.

Surely that can't be the kind of logic to throw at anything.

We shouldn't train our youth because they will steal our jobs.

I hope we haven't become this selfish as a nation.

FOX_HOUND

globalds wrote: »

Surely that can't be the kind of logic to throw at anything.

We shouldn't train our youth because they will steal our jobs.

I hope we haven't become this selfish as a nation.

you have to look after everybody. The older workers might well have mortgages. don't plant the pack against older workers for the sake of the greed of big business.

FOX_HOUND

wantsajob wrote: »

Yep cheap young labour = bye bye employees 50 or over.

I'd argue much younger than that. but 50 is young.

globalds

FOX_HOUND wrote: »

you have to look after everybody. The older workers might well have mortgages. don't plant the pack against older workers for the sake of the greed of big business.

As well as mortgages they more than likely have kids as well.


This argument is so much like the one about a generation loving high house prices ..And then moaning that there kids can't buy anything near them.

It is a bit sad that one generations security is based on pulling up the drawbridge.

Lith

Thought i'll 'bump' this..

Brother has been told to go on this but the lazy C%^&*(* etc

didn't go,


2 weeks have passed but nothing about stopping his JSA

this 'youth contract thing' is 100% boll0cks


I've also done some 'deep re-search' on this and i think it's pathetic targeting 23/24 year olds etc.