that I can agree with, she is getting benefit paid for by the state, Pounland pay nothing, to me, that's the real scandal.



Anyone who can work and is in receipt of benefits should, IMHO, be doing something to deserve them.

That's how it goes with badly written legislation and always should be.

Agreed, the best thing they can be doing is devoting 39 hours a week to finding employment to get them off benefits, not boosting the profits of retailers.

Employable is a very funny word.



I'd assume most would agree that volunteering in a museum requires more than working part time in a supermarket.



Lets have a look at one piece of experience you need to get a job at a supermarket: stacking shelves.



Well most people have stacked shelves in their lives when food shopping needs unpacking and putting into the cupboards, fridge and freezer. However working in a museum requires knowledge which normally comes from a university education which Cait Reilly has had.

more Damo nonsesne

I don't agree that [idevoting 39 hours a week to finding employment[/i is productive at all due to the lack of jobs that pay a living wage out there atm.



Lets look at the bigger picture. Ingeus (where I'm at) get paid millions to get the unemployed back into work and we all know [url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2012/nov/27/data-work-programme-failureshow useless these companies are[/url!

Emma got a nice golden handshake mate, for making a sizable loss





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Very unlikely she will be paying and pay related taxes if she is only working part time unless her hourly rate is huge!!

More drivel - so to stand on the door of a museum and show people where to go or working behind the counter of their shop needs a university education?

The point here is whether you think those on JSA are spending 39 hours a week looking for work. How can we possibly know?

Well a lot of bank managers just happen to get the same golden handshakes during the big losses and it's the same deal for these workfare companies. I had the misfortune of meeting a manager who works for Ingeus and he spent many years working for the financial sector before swapping jobs to exploit the unemployed.

Which is the major issue with taking the low paid out of tax all together, total disenfranchiseation of a whole section of society.







Sending them out to work for free isn't going to solve that.