People genuinely looking for part time jobs or retail work are not going to find it. How will this do anything other than increase unemployment ? The state now paying for private AND public sector wages?
Since when did a job placement like this last nine months? I presume the workers retain their social welfare increment while with FAS - so it’s jobs for nothing for the employers. Scandalous.
More to the point - whatever you feel about work for welfare - those jobs are cheapening costs to the retail employers. The retail sector would otherwise have to look for other cost savings either in the form of rent or in the form of rates. The taxpayer is again subsidising landlords.
A further damage will be caused by the fact that no retailer can afford to not do this, once his competitors have started it.
It was the employers I was thinking of ym -the working for welfare is less of an issue in principle - no reason why people shouldn’t work for welfare, community employment schemes do that - for the community - not for private companies.
I would share that view, build infrastructure or whatever. Tackle the root causes of our unemployment. The simple fact of the matter is that this scheme will increase unemployment
Microsoft Ireland are taking 10 people on under the WPP1 scheme, what will this do for graduate programmes ?
I can see this spreading like wildfire in all sectors from Centra/supervalu/ecco shoes to the types of business like Microsoft and so on
Reminds me of the scam in the Film Shawshak Redemption, where prisoners were sent out to work undercutting private enterprise. I suspect someone is pocketing a vast fortune out of this.
Separately but related. I applied for a job with a large multinational based in Cork, had 2 interviews with the Company staying overnight in the City for both at considerable cost. Heard nothing back. I rang 2 weeks after the 2nd interview, the company said the job had been pulled.
While looking for other jobs, I noticed that a job had been posted on FAS and the Spec matched word for word the job I was interviewed for.
At present 95% of the jobs listed on FAS that I am qualified to do, I am disqualified from applying bcos they are WPP for College Graduates. Amazing Country
Sorry to hear it, Pyramid5. In all my thoughts of what might happen, I never imagined that the government would deliberately undermine the most vulnerable in society in this particular way. They amaze me with their stupidity.
Self Regulation, the tried and tested method for compliance and success. Even Dell brought in the work from UK after the recruits, so technically within the guidelines
