Dos_Box Posted November 5, 2010 Posted November 5, 2010 I've just been chatting to a yound lad who is doing a course run by a training company on the ground floor of the office complex EduGeek is located in. He's doing......I didn't know wether to laugh or cry when he told me.....an NVQ in call center working. He's overjoyed because the govt pays him £4 per hour for the duration of the course!
localzuk Posted November 5, 2010 Posted November 5, 2010 No wonder they're having to slash Further Education budgets if this is where it gets spent?!
TopBanana Posted November 5, 2010 Posted November 5, 2010 thank god its getting them off the streets though and into a working enviroment we have a guy here working at the moment on a new goverment scheme , he gets his dole and nothing more but he has a chance of obtaining full time paid employment now 1
tech_guy Posted November 5, 2010 Posted November 5, 2010 Expect more of the same for all of us as the cutbacks begin to bite.
CapEnd Posted November 8, 2010 Posted November 8, 2010 Its not the best idea this. All that will happen is there will be less jobs available as companies get free labour. Would you work 30 hours a week for £60? Companies will realise they can get people to work for free, so there will be less and less real jobs available. It is a slippery slope this, but not many people can see it from my point of view...
Theblacksheep Posted November 8, 2010 Posted November 8, 2010 Its not the best idea this. All that will happen is there will be less jobs available as companies get free labour. Would you work 30 hours a week for £60? Companies will realise they can get people to work for free, so there will be less and less real jobs available. It is a slippery slope this, but not many people can see it from my point of view... Very slippery slope. More out of work, coincidently loads of free and part time mandatory work for under the minimum wage "just to get work experience". Disgracefull. 1
localzuk Posted November 8, 2010 Posted November 8, 2010 Its not the best idea this. All that will happen is there will be less jobs available as companies get free labour. Would you work 30 hours a week for £60? Companies will realise they can get people to work for free, so there will be less and less real jobs available. It is a slippery slope this, but not many people can see it from my point of view... This isn't about working, this is a training course. Are you talking about the government's £1 an hour stuff?
tmcd35 Posted November 8, 2010 Posted November 8, 2010 NVQ in Call Centre Working? Please tell me that's not a Level 3 course? Talk about devaluing the worth of our GCSE's and A-Levels!
localzuk Posted November 8, 2010 Posted November 8, 2010 I was commenting on what TopBannana said. May I recommend that you make use of the 'Reply With Quote' button, as it clarifies who you're replying to.
Advocate Posted November 8, 2010 Posted November 8, 2010 Very slippery slope. More out of work, coincidently loads of free and part time mandatory work for under the minimum wage "just to get work experience". Disgracefull. Amazing how the govement change there mind, friend of mine trying to get in to IT was unemployed for over a year but because he lived off savings for first 9 months did not claim dole, when he took up the offer of a voluntary one day a week at the uni where I work in the IT dept the dole told him they would stop his money as only they could give him a placement and then only when he'd been in getting the dole for six months.
dwhyte85 Posted November 8, 2010 Posted November 8, 2010 Amazing how the govement change there mind, friend of mine trying to get in to IT was unemployed for over a year but because he lived off savings for first 9 months did not claim dole, when he took up the offer of a voluntary one day a week at the uni where I work in the IT dept the dole told him they would stop his money as only they could give him a placement and then only when he'd been in getting the dole for six months. JSA is lame, it is based on your previous years earnings/contrib, so if you've ever been self employed it can be a nightmare
rad Posted November 8, 2010 Posted November 8, 2010 I think the NVQ stuff is great to get the first job but after that its pointless. But getting £4 an hour is better than I got at 17 in P/T paid work
Edu-IT Posted November 9, 2010 Posted November 9, 2010 thank god its getting them off the streets though and into a working enviroment we have a guy here working at the moment on a new goverment scheme , he gets his dole and nothing more but he has a chance of obtaining full time paid employment now Totally agree. At least he's doing something with his life and not queing outside the job centre each week for free money.
mthomas08 Posted November 9, 2010 Posted November 9, 2010 I think the NVQ stuff is great to get the first job but after that its pointless. But getting £4 an hour is better than I got at 17 in P/T paid work Same, I had to do what real world people did and work part time while doing a mon-fri 8:30-4:30 course....
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