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Tuesday 12 May 2015

Cameron Government intro


 Its  all about  Welfare Change. The changes that  may well effect are those on Universal Credit, JSA Youth Contract, Esa Disability benefits and Industrial Accident   David Cameron the prime minister showed the cameras the manifesto. He refers to the manifesto and you can see some of the relevant comments here.

The Conservative Party Manifesto -Promises ahead on Jobs

key slogan-Full employment

"A job is the best way to provide security for families"

Introduction

jobcentre
Following the election of the Conservative Party to power within the Uk. the Key phrase used within their Manifesto has been "Full Employment" not underemployment or Unemployment.   In this Post I have Quoted the Partie's manifesto
jobsearch222We will boost apprenticeships and help you secure a good job We have already delivered 2.2 million new apprenticeships over the last five years. Over the next five years, we will deliver three million more and ensure they deliver the skills employers need.
 We aim to achieve full employment in the UK, with the highest employment rate in the G7, and we will help businesses create two million jobs over the Parliament. We have abolished the jobs tax – employers' National Insurance contributions (NICs) – for the under 21s and next year we will do the same for young apprentices under 25.
We will continue to help smaller businesses take on new workers through the Employment Allowance, which frees businesses from the first £2,000 of employers’ NICs so that a third of employers pay no jobs tax.
"Our plan will help to generate jobs and higher wages for everybody"

Youth & NEET's

disabled2069106Jobcentre Plus advisers will work with schools and colleges to supplement careers advice and provide routes into work experience and apprenticeships. But it is not fair – on taxpayers, or on young people themselves that 18-21 year-olds with no work experience should slip straight into a life on benefits without first contributing to their community. So we will introduce tougher






Day One Work Requirements for young people claiming out-of-work benefits. We will replace the Jobseeker’s Allowance for 18-21 year-olds with a Youth Allowance that will be time-limited to six months, after which young people will have to take an apprenticeship, a traineeship or do daily community work for their benefits


. It is also not fair that taxpayers should have to pay for 18-21 year-olds on Jobseeker’s Allowance to claim Housing Benefit in order to leave home. So we will ensure that they no longer have an automatic entitlement to Housing Benefit We will fight for equal opportunity for Disabled Last year alone, 140,000 disabled people found work. But the jobless rate for this group remains too high and, as part of our objective to achieve full employment, we will aim to halve the disability employment gap: we will transform policy, practice and public attitudes, so that hundreds of thousands more disabled people who can and want to be in work find employment. We now have more women-led businesses than ever before, more women in work than ever before and more women on FTSE 100 boards than ever before. We want to see full, genuine gender equality. The gender pay gap is the lowest on record, but we want to reduce it further and will push business to do so: we will require companies with more than 250 employees to publish the difference between the average pay of their male and female employees.

Thursday 29 January 2015

Is it ever right to call a Job seeker a "Scrounger"

The Term " Scrounger" has been used by the media. Papers like the Independant have
Iam on benefits but i am no scrounger

I find the phrase "Scrounger" often se
ems to fit in the category of the disabled.
The title featured here clearly is the headline of this article featured on the Money Saving Expert.com

Not everyone on benefits is a scrounger.
is the opening line. But I ask myself why some politicians would promote this concept of Benefit claiments being defined as a Scrounger






This video highlights the issue clearly. You can be working and still be deemed because of your 
income as using the system
However our economy has CHANGED. the existing JSA system was never set up for the Zero hour contract

The Telegraph reported that JustinWelby identified correctly in my view that this phrase was inappropriate.
Although the Archbishop said he could not quote a minister using offensive language about people in poverty, he warned that people on benefits are being categorised as “scroungers”.
Speaking to BBC Radio 4’s Today programme the Archbishop said: “We have to be very careful about how we talk about people across the range of those who receive benefits. You can use derogatory terms – it’s just important not to do so.”
Asked whether ministers were using “derogatory” language about poor people the Archbishop said: “I can’t quote any minister of having done so, but I think there is a danger from time to time that people are categorised - that all people on benefits are seen as scroungers - and that is clearly completely unfair and untrue.”

Earlier this year the Archbishop warned that “children and families will pay the price” as a result of the Government’s welfare reforms.
Invariably those claiming or signing on will feel stigmatised by the term. Unlike the Bankers they can lose their money through a Sanction. 
Scrounger headlines
These headlines have regularly featured in the medai over recent years. 
Rarely has the sub heading featured well which states that the system is unfit for purpose. Yet throughout recent years we have seen ATOS and computer systems being deemed as not fit for purpose.
it is becoming clearer that there are very few that are in the " Abuse the system " category. The not prepared to work. There are far more in the "underemployed " category
The Ons produced this

Underemployment and Overemployment in the UK, 2014

  • In 2014, just under 1 in 10, or 3.0 million people, employed in the UK wanted to work more hours than they are currently employed to do and are therefore classified as underemployed.
  • On average each underemployed worker would like to work an extra 11.3 hours per week.
  • Over 1 in 5 people working in elementary occupations were underemployed in 2014.
  • In 2014, over 1 in 5 part time workers were underemployed compared with around 1 in 20 of full time workers.
  • The North East had the highest percentage of underemployed workers in Great Britain