Just a heads up to be careful about what jobs you apply for. This is one example: LEAFLET DISTRIBUTOR that is NATIONWIDE, PERMANENT, 20+ HOURS WEEK and WAGE of £7.55 PER HOUR (ref: ERG/14706). The employer, AIRCELL MEDIA (Assumingly, tongue in cheek of “Air” referring to empty and “Cell” referring to a single Brain Cell) whom has a website at www.aircellmedia.co.uk (registered to “Lucent Internet Services” – lucent meaning shining, bright or translucent
The Work Programme seems set to run from next year. In the meantime we are getting reports that existing ‘providers’ (as if they are like nurturing parents…) of the Flexible New Deal seem less and less interested in their ‘customers’. Some people have not heard from their advisers for a considerable time.
The cuts in Housing Benefit will hit hard. I think this is going to be a major cause of distress. Not only, as people here have remarked, is it almost impossible to rent a new place when you’re on the dole but many landlords already make life difficult for anyone on Benefits. Having to fork out that ‘extra’ money – when the DWP already says the existing JSA level is the minimum you need to (barely) live on – is a hard demand. It will also affect anyone try
Champion of the Out-Of-Work John Bird has many friends amongst Ipswich Unemployed Action. His solution to mass worklessness: less dole, ‘voluntary work’ (David Cameron’s Big Society) and flog some his mag on street corners. Bird is rapidly getting support. Away with the Nanny State (not that we are too clear on what Nannies are)! Bring communities back in charge! Buy the Big Issue! In Ipswich we JSA types and Flexible New Dealers are ready to volunteer to Take over the D
How to Deal with Ne’re-Do-Wells. Jobless must earn their benefits says John Bird (MBE) Monday 21st of June 2010 John Bird, Founder & Editor in Chief of The Big Issue, has written to David Cameron urging him to cut state benefits. In his letter to the Prime Minister Mr Bird urges him to take measures which oblige the unemployed to become involved in community work in order to improve their life skills and readiness for work. It is his firm belief that long term benefit dependency i
Dencora House is a detention centre located on Whitehouse Industrial Estate – isolating New Deal participants from society.
Even in an industrial estate, the property has a perimeter fence, the entrance is a vast distance from the main road and towards the opposite side the place is shielded from an even busier road by trees [...]
Being at Dencora House detention center for 30 hours a week doing unsupervised job search with constant threats of instant dismissal for trivial things including going to the toilet when one is next available or getting a drink of water is not a fun task.
Labour in 1997 began its welfare reform regime including Gordon Brown’s New Deal scheme aimed at getting rid of the “life on benefits” trend.
Regardless of progress made in making benefits harder to claim resulting in 2/5 of a million less claimants, 12 years on politicians are still using this but rebranding to various phrases including “passive receivers” when most of this problem is a thing of the past.
This article also focuses on the Governments aim of eradicating Child Poverty by 2020 - a mission proposed by former Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Ipswich Unemployed Action is a group of unemployed people fighting for the rights of the unemployed nationally although we specifically focus on the Ipswich area.
We were formed in May 2009 after a string of Human Rights violation towards jobseekers specifically from New Deal courses provided by the local New Deal Prime Contractor YMCA Training in addition to Jobcentre Plus.
The more research undertaken on the issues it appears to be a national issue so we have also been focusing on raising awareness nationally on the failed New Deal system, the new Flexible New Deal scheme and proposed workfare scheme. We have a blog on wordpress.com
Flexible New Deal Providers refuse to deliver contract
Flexible New Deal providers fail to deliver contract and pocket taxpayers’ cash Flexible New Deal providers nationwide (well, in the Phase 1 areas!) are widely reported not to have been actively processing referrals from Jobcentre Plus. Their contract is still active up until the Work Programme begins so referrals should continue. Are providers harming the [...]
National Minimum Wage to be dissolved
Flexible New Deal Scandal can reveal that the Government is planning to dissolve the National Minimum Wage which becomes of a huge worry of allowing workfare to go mainstream. At current all people participating on Government schemes such as New Deal, Flexible New Deal and Work for Your Benefit scheme are exempt from the National [...]
As taken from a DWP document: The Work Programme Framework Introduction to the Work Programme The Coalition Agreement, published on 12 May 2010, set out a number of major welfare to work reforms, including a core integrated welfare to work programme and a number of measures designed to support people to find employment. These measures [...]
The Big Issue: helping the homeless or a scam?
As co-founder of the Big Issue, John Bird, has recently made a big statement about slashing benefits, and today I make a big statement about the Big Issue. This isn’t a retaliation remark at all, as a human being he can have his own opinion but after a discussion on sister site Ipswich Unemployed Action, [...]
The Work Programme is approaching (still some time to go mind you) and will replace New Deal and Flexible New Deal. This is a post to specify what changes I propose throughout the “network”. Flexible New Deal / New Deal related sites All these will be retired. Whether or not they will disappear off the [...]
Cant get a job? Immigrants rule UK Jobs
It has been revealed that in some areas of the UK, immigrants make up to almost 7 in 10 jobs. If you cannot secure a job, perhaps that is why! Place Percentage (of jobs by immigrants) Rough ratio Newham (“London 2012″), London 69.5 7 in 10 people Brent, London 57.7 3 in 5 people Westminster, [...]
A4e and the Data Protection Act violation
A4e have managed to lose 24,000 peoples details. This not under New Deal, Flexible New Deal or any other welfare contract that they have but the Community Legal Advice Centre contract. This shows deep concern about how they do not care about peoples personal information – so if you have A4e as a provider or another [...]
Work for Your Benefit (WfYB) provider announced tomorrow
DWP says the successful Work for Your Benefit provider will be announced on 21st June 2010 when the contract is awarded. That is tomorrow.
Welfare to Work: Overpaid, Overcrowded and Out of touch!
Flexible New Deal providers are greatly overpaid, overcrowded and out of touch with reality. The 5 year contracts:- terminated to solely 18 months; where providers were paid top heavy service fees, resulted in rather unrequired investment almost upfront to deliver the contracts over the longer period. As the contract is now being scrapped this has [...]
Jobcentre Plus staff Vs Unemployed Professionals
As published in todays Sun newspaper… a report in comparisons between public sector organisations (such as DWP’s Jobcentre Plus) and private businesses… Sector Private Public Total Employed 22,000,000 7,000,000 Pay (Average) £19,932 £22,417 (30% better off an hour) Pensions 15% of public sector workers gain in better pensions Hours worked 23% more hours worked 9 [...]
Barack Obama: stupid anti-British racist
It was hailed a miracle! The USA having their first black president (although solely a puppet and only half black), light at the end of the tunnel for a very racist country to start again as a fair society and hope to end the severe rich-poor divide in the country we all know as corporate [...]
Former Labour MP Nick Palmer signs on
Nick Palmer, a former Labour MP for Broxstowe, who spent 13 years in Parliament and speaks 6 languages, has a PhD in maths and loves topping up his huge former MP salary and MP expenses doing surveys at approx £50 per time, is reported to be signing on for Jobseekers Allowance.Nick Palmer, 60, who also [...]
Coalition Programme for Government
Why have they just merged a couple of party manifestos? I want more information on the specific issues, not a few bullet points! We need a protest and a new election… don’t want these *****s in charge for next 5 years! Snippets 19. JOBS AND WELFARE The Government believes that we need to encourage responsibility [...]
New Deal Complaint unofficial fansite on facebook
A google search has made me aware of a facebook group…. Name: “Newdeal” should NOT be mandatory Category: Business – Employment & Work Description: I have recently been made to go on the government “Newdeal” scheme, and can only say I was disgusted by this supposed training course, everyone I spoke to had a complaint. [...]
Jobcentre Plus: Nude Webcam Performers
Jobcentre Plus are advertising for nude webcam performers @ £100 per day. Male and Female candidates must have a computer and broadband connection and be available working at home. These “nationwide” adverts are targeted. I had searched all jobs in Ipswich and Colchester – when I tried Felixstowe this job was available – but wasn’t [...]
Comment on David Freud: His Lordship on Getting People into Work. by Lowestoft's Finest
If Lord Fraud thinks that he can lower JSA to between £30-£40 a week he will not as you say be throwing the unemployed to the wolves, but in reality to use a Ukrainian saying will be “Calling the wolf from the woods” JSA at £30-£40 will kick off the biggest wave of rioting and crime wave we have seen for years that will cost the country so many more times than it saves and see his government back off so it never goes near the unemployed and then puts it in the position to have to make savings by cutting someone elses money more worthy in the publics eyes or see it all kick off again and incurr more costs.So no way will he do it, he can’t in reality blatantly cut back JSA as you indicate it is to low to live on as it is at best he can try to cut it by linking it to some unrealisticly low index but nothing more than a few single pecentage points. For a start most our JSA goes paying bloody Energy bills.There is so little left after that that JSA can’t be halved.
Comment on David Freud: His Lordship on Getting People into Work. by Scorpion
Reading between the lines the intention of Lord Fraud, IDS and their cohorts is clear: Dramatically lower the benefit bill as the government knows damn well there are going to be be people languishing on them for years given the state of the job market. So people will get a few quid (without any chance of it being taken away for not taking any particular job – maybe), but the amount is going to be much less. Top rate JSA is £65 a week currently, I expect the equivalent payment made under an Universal Credit system or whatever it ends up being called to be somewhere between £30-40 a week. In essence it will do the reverse of what it purports – make the poor better off. Claimants will receive so little money that they will be in an even weaker position than usual, and I full expect this reform to be link to the dissolution of the minimum wage (http://www.flexible-new-deal.co.uk/2010/07/24/national-minimum-wage-dissolved/) . Basically the unemployed are going to be thrown to the wolves.
Comment on Labour Market System Scam #485,672 by reggie
yeah, first party, second party, third party…, but third party does sound a lot better than any old Tom, Dick or Harriet
Comment on Labour Market System Scam #485,672 by Churchhill
“Third party means anyone else other than yourself and their company.” It’s all well and good for the educated classes of IUA to know that, but, ask any nodding dog at random in the back of a car window, and I suspect a random person on the street and they wouldn’t know what “third party” means, maybe it partly do with the insurance connotation that confuses people allowing it to slip under their mental radar, “you’ll need third party with that, mate”… “oh, and you’ll need to allow us to give access to your data to third parties, it’s part of the programme, mate”.
Comment on Labour Market System Scam #485,672 by Flexible New Deal
It was just a classic con… (I love how they say only submit once… why? They want to SELL your details on, in a database. Why buy 100,000 client details when duplicate records exist? That is a bad deal for the people buying the lists which means Aircell can get less money for them. I would advise people to submit as many made up details as possible, screw them over!) 2. By submitting an application form through this site, you agree that Aircell media can contact you from time to time by post, fax, telephone or other electronic means, to tell you about other products and services, offered by ourselves or other carefully selected companies, that we believe would be of interest to you. Technicality here first which makes such acts unlawful. The boxes and button on the site are a web “form”… and similar to a contact form on a website its an enquiry form. I dont need to explain what an application form is to any of you … but there is no way under a court of law pressing submit with your details on is an “application form” because you are not applying for a job just asking someone to contact you… you aren’t uploading a CV or giving over details such as work history etc. to help gain employment. They give themselves the right to spam you will their marketing mailings… I do not see the point of saying carefully selected companies… although them saying what they feel will interest you stabs themselves in the back as they know you are looking for a job and nothing else. We may also pass your information to third party companies for the purpose of them telling you about their services or products. Third party means anyone else other than yourself and their company. I guess they had this statement to get past the previous one. 4. If we transfer your information to a service provider or agent in another country we will make sure that the service provider or agent agrees to apply the same levels of protection as we are required to apply to information held and to use your information only for the purpose of providing the service to us. They sell international…. Your name, address and email is a HUGE worry about identity theft. Someone somewhere will be seeing if they convert such information in more details… i.e. add you to a social networking site and see about getting your DOB, place of birth etc. and thats when the real fun begins!
Comment on Labour Market System Scam #485,672 by Lowestoft's Finest
Andrew We had someone who stood in lowestoft’s Main Street with a placard with “Will Work For Food” on it for years, I don’t think it got him very far just got him a load of abuse. I hadn’t realised it was an American idea though in hindsight it had all the pointers.
Comment on Labour Market System Scam #485,672 by Andrew Coates
I thought in the USA you put a sign saying Will Work for Food.
Comment on David Freud: His Lordship on Getting People into Work. by philip
Laurel And Hardy could make a better job of runing things than the clowns we have now. And Laurel and Hardy WERE CLOWNS.
Comment on Labour Market System Scam #485,672 by Funny A4e Photos
Good point,Lowerstofts Finest. He might have got more than one job offer.
Comment on Labour Market System Scam #485,672 by Funny A4e Photos
There was a Polish woman working at A4e Edinburgh in 2008. Wonder if it’s her?