Labour To Bring In Proper Paid Guaranteed Jobs For Jobless Long Termers

DecentLivingWage

Labour is planning to roll out a raft of measures to ensure long term unemployed work seekers are offered a proper Paid job for an initial six months. These new workers will be paid at the Minimum Wage, not suffering the demeaning,humiliating,low self-esteem causing 'jobs' which the coalition have been trying to offer for benefits. Labour are saying that anyone who fails to take up this great opportunity without serious good reason (eg genuine disability) will face losing benefits.

Hopefully this will raise optimism in the economy as workers start to invest in the homes and futures and at last boost growth! Under the present coalition, the deficit is rising ever-upwards as the economy sinks. (Frightened Broke Voters Dont Spend.) If it worked in the US, well it seems Obama Right,Osborne Wrong?

Heres the details of Labours Guaranteed Jobs For Minimum Wage to bring hope for anyone out there who I know is genuinely desperate for work - despite the sneers of the Cons coalition we have for the moment :

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/jan/04/ed-balls-welfare-work-scheme

Loanranger

I see that Miniband is desperately recycling old ideas in order to look as if he's doing something.

Back in the day, in the 1970s, this used to be called the Youth Opportunities Programme and the Job Creation Programme. That worked, didn't it?

ILW

So - employers will just sack existing people and take on government subsidised workers for 6 months and then do the same again. Brilliant.

DecentLivingWage

ILW wrote: »

So - employers will just sack existing people and take on government subsidised workers for 6 months and then do the same again. Brilliant.

You cant sack existing 'workers' of the benefit slave type - theyre not real workers, they are economically inactive doing mickey mouse fake jobs sucking the life out of business as deflating the market for real jobs. Hopefully Ed Balls plan will put workers where we need them and are desperate for extra staff!

As he says:

'every adult aged over 25 and out of work for more than two years should be obliged to take up a government-provided job for six months, or lose benefits.

The "compulsory work or lose benefits" announcement by the shadow chancellor, Ed Balls, and the shadow work and pensions secretary, Liam Byrne, comes ahead of what threatens to be a fraught second reading debate on Tuesday over Labour's refusal to back a government bill restricting increases in benefits and tax credits to 1% a year for the next three years – which is likely to represent a 4% cut in real terms.'

nickj_2

where are these jobs?

andyroberts1967

This is a brilliant idea by Labour, and I bet the Coalition are kicking themselves for not thinking of it sooner. I'm just a bit worried that the Coalition will turn round and steal some of Labour's ideas. Labour should hang on until nearer the election (just over 2 years thank God) and float them at that time. This Government is a disaster and I can't wait to see the back of them!

ILW

DecentLivingWage wrote: »

You cant sack existing 'workers' of the benefit slave type - theyre not real workers, they are economically inactive doing mickey mouse fake jobs sucking the life out of business as deflating the market for real jobs. Hopefully Ed Balls plan will put workers where we need them and are desperate for extra staff!

As he says:

'every adult aged over 25 and out of work for more than two years should be obliged to take up a government-provided job for six months, or lose benefits.

The "compulsory work or lose benefits" announcement by the shadow chancellor, Ed Balls, and the shadow work and pensions secretary, Liam Byrne, comes ahead of what threatens to be a fraught second reading debate on Tuesday over Labour's refusal to back a government bill restricting increases in benefits and tax credits to 1% a year for the next three years – which is likely to represent a 4% cut in real terms.'

You do talk some rubbish.
A business that is desperate for staff will take them on and pay them anyway.
Many employers will simply sack existing unskilled minimum wage staff and replace them with subsidised workers. They would be daft not to.
Why pay someone to do a job when you can get the same labour for nothing?

wotsthat

A good idea if the premise that people are long-term unemployed because there are simply no jobs and have done everything possible to find work.

somethingcorporate

andyroberts1967 wrote: »

This is a brilliant idea by Labour, and I bet the Coalition are kicking themselves for not thinking of it sooner. I'm just a bit worried that the Coalition will turn round and steal some of Labour's ideas. Labour should hang on until nearer the election (just over 2 years thank God) and float them at that time. This Government is a disaster and I can't wait to see the back of them!

I cannot tell if this is sarcastic or not!

I am sure you're joking right? The cons are trying to clear up the mess left by over a decade of reckless abandon in terms of spending by the joke of a labour government.

This policy will not do any good, if the jobs are not there at the moment what will these people do that actually adds value?

Rinoa

Labour are only offering it to those over 25 and out of work for 2 or more years. That's around 125,000.

So no help whatsoever for over 2,00,000 currently unemployed.

Nice headline for them though.

Rinoa

wotsthat wrote: »

A good idea if the premise that people are long-term unemployed because there are simply no jobs and have done everything possible to find work.

With this scheme, Labour are actually admitting they have no viable economic plan that will give these people a proper job anytime soon.