INTERVIEWER Posted March 1, 2012 Share Posted March 1, 2012 Workfare is work WITHOUT any employment rights or protections. And without any pay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DenadaInnit Posted March 1, 2012 Share Posted March 1, 2012 Channel 4 have a great article on their FactCheck pages. This is from it: http://helpmeinvestigate.com/welfare/mandatory-instruction-removed-from-dwp-workfare-document Definate confirmation that it never was voluntary, it is to dodge NMW. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
INTERVIEWER Posted March 1, 2012 Share Posted March 1, 2012 Work Experience for JSA Claimants 14. Where you are providing support for JSA participants, which is work experience you must mandate participants to this activity. This is to avoid the National Minimum Wage regulations, which apply if JSA participants are not mandated. - DWP guidance for Work Programme providers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DenadaInnit Posted March 1, 2012 Share Posted March 1, 2012 Work Experience for JSA Claimants 14. Where you are providing support for JSA participants, which is work experience you must mandate participants to this activity. This is to avoid the National Minimum Wage regulations, which apply if JSA participants are not mandated. - DWP guidance for Work Programme providers. Emma Royd, care to comment? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southcoast Posted March 1, 2012 Author Share Posted March 1, 2012 Work Experience for JSA Claimants 14. Where you are providing support for JSA participants, which is work experience you must mandate participants to this activity. This is to avoid the National Minimum Wage regulations, which apply if JSA participants are not mandated. - DWP guidance for Work Programme providers. That blows the governments case wide open,I think I am going to seek legal advice about this and see if I can take the government to the human rights court. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragonfall Posted March 1, 2012 Share Posted March 1, 2012 Work Experience for JSA Claimants 14. Where you are providing support for JSA participants, which is work experience you must mandate participants to this activity. This is to avoid the National Minimum Wage regulations, which apply if JSA participants are not mandated. - DWP guidance for Work Programme providers. That document looks falsified, for several reasons ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DenadaInnit Posted March 1, 2012 Share Posted March 1, 2012 That document looks falsified, for several reasons ... What do you mean? Falsified by who? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
INTERVIEWER Posted March 1, 2012 Share Posted March 1, 2012 That document looks falsified, for several reasons ... I didn't provide a document, as the original has recently been altered by the DWP to remove the statement that I posted. Below is a screenshot from the google cache with the relevant text highlighted: http://johnnyvoid.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/work-programme.jpg The DWP has removed many statements regarding the mandatory work experience/workfare elements of the Work Programme recently. I wonder why? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
INTERVIEWER Posted March 1, 2012 Share Posted March 1, 2012 Here is another link: https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:pl9RE1_7SJkJ:www.dwp.gov.uk/docs/wp-pg-chapter-3.pdf+you+must+mandate+participants+to+this+activity.+This+is+to+avoid+the+National+Minimum+Wage+Regulations&hl=en&gl=uk&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESjQtfhw8GKI_wuWjQFOFrM570coVpR-kQUHpJ9vEf3HAKa6yJ2TBxaY7MP0TqyhRhMv6IQrs1okp1emc3X8uYFT4QxfphLhGmG7Zsv6i0_h1cs9GqprI2-uqFzg1fw7kIGge3ak&sig=AHIEtbTGwu6mah6hY5kjWL3BInpbW9r1cQ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
INTERVIEWER Posted March 1, 2012 Share Posted March 1, 2012 Just a quick bit of advice for Work Programme Primes and sub-contractors: You should be aware that when providing work experience support for JSA participants you MUST mandate participants to this activity. According to the DWP, this is to avoid the National Minimum Wage regulations which certainly will apply if JSA participants are not mandated. Don't want Poundland, Wilkinsons or Asda faced with a NMW wage bill for WP work experience participants when they can get the workers for free, do we? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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