silverclaws
Senior Retro Guru
Has anyone else noticed the rise of the recruitment agency, a situation where the employer and the agency definately benefit and the worker less so. The agency promise of always work often is not the case and of many of those whom I know to be long term unemployed, they have also had their fill of recruitment agencies.
You see, I perceieve a situation occurring in this country, where the employed are being treated apallingly and of the government schemes to get people back to work, well many employers are abusing the system, they take what they can of the cheap labour, and government incentives whilst they exist and when they stop, instead of offerring the worker continued work, they find them surplus to requirements and chuck them back on the dole. Does anyone not think this is having a detrimental effect on workers ?
Further to that, is the perception that some employers no longer want a workforce, for it seems having a workforce, is too much hassle and of those that do have work forces they know every trick in the book to negate their responsibilities to their workforce, like in my case being made redundant six working hours before I had completed two years work, obviously to avoid redundancy payments, however meagre they would be given my time with that blue chip company. Even the job centre said that was a dirty trick, but sadly, it is becoming more and more common, that and terminating employment after probationary periods on reduced wages.
So, I am of the thinking that this country actively promotes abuse of employees and would be employees, it actually creates systems where people can be abused under the term 'help' and of course massaging the all important unemployment figures, as unemployment figures are a measure used to define governments and they know it, so schemes and more scheming is the order of the day, when the reality is the UK's requirement for a work force is diminishing, yet we have a large population which needs to live and for it to live, jobs are needed, otherwise the alternative is government hand outs.
It's not so much government though, it should not be their responsibility to ensure people find employment, but the fault is that of industry, for what we had when the UK was most influential in the world has now gone with that once held presence, what we had required a large work force, now it has gone, we still have a large work force, so what's the answer, perhaps a slimming down of the population, but even that is fraught with consequences. The bottom line I believe, is to get back much of what has been lost, as this country cannot be prosperous with a disheartened and unemployed work force.
Myself, twenty odd years of continued industrial employment, I even used to think it bad of me to take days off sick and in those twenty years of employment I had taken exactly ten days off sick in that time. I used to have the belief, that once a job was got, hang onto it with finger nails if one has to and take whatever abuses were thrown at one, as having a job was the most important thing in life for a male adult. That attitude created by the 1980,s employment situation in the North West of England where in my locale it was 25 % unemployment and riots on the streets.
Benefits, government hand outs was a dirty notion to me, after a very brief experience of the old type of unemployment system, where the term ub40 became and anchor around one's neck, a dirty word as with it one was considered unclean. I was not going to put myself through that ever again, so work doing whatever, for whatever I could get was the order of the day.
As long term unemloyed, I do realise what my problem is, and it is the very same for many of those who are in a similar position, we are totally demoralised, been screwed around too much and, there really is not much hope, unless there is a vast industrial change in this country, as being taught history of our nation has one distinct disadvantage, it enables the comparison between the now and the past, in living memory. and in that living memory, many who are now long term unemployed had work and were valued as part of a work force.
Housing and council tax benefits, well, without a decent income coming in, what option is there, people have to live, the economy has to be kept going, as benefits stimulate the economy and by that, the scroungers are doing their bit with their fags and beer.
But, we are all locked into a self perpetuating system which actually creates work. For that system to work, people have to be kept in the system, the unemployed are necessary, because they necessitate the employment of others, and of course provide successive governments with a butt to whip as the reason why they continulally fail to live up to their electioneering promises.
You see, I perceieve a situation occurring in this country, where the employed are being treated apallingly and of the government schemes to get people back to work, well many employers are abusing the system, they take what they can of the cheap labour, and government incentives whilst they exist and when they stop, instead of offerring the worker continued work, they find them surplus to requirements and chuck them back on the dole. Does anyone not think this is having a detrimental effect on workers ?
Further to that, is the perception that some employers no longer want a workforce, for it seems having a workforce, is too much hassle and of those that do have work forces they know every trick in the book to negate their responsibilities to their workforce, like in my case being made redundant six working hours before I had completed two years work, obviously to avoid redundancy payments, however meagre they would be given my time with that blue chip company. Even the job centre said that was a dirty trick, but sadly, it is becoming more and more common, that and terminating employment after probationary periods on reduced wages.
So, I am of the thinking that this country actively promotes abuse of employees and would be employees, it actually creates systems where people can be abused under the term 'help' and of course massaging the all important unemployment figures, as unemployment figures are a measure used to define governments and they know it, so schemes and more scheming is the order of the day, when the reality is the UK's requirement for a work force is diminishing, yet we have a large population which needs to live and for it to live, jobs are needed, otherwise the alternative is government hand outs.
It's not so much government though, it should not be their responsibility to ensure people find employment, but the fault is that of industry, for what we had when the UK was most influential in the world has now gone with that once held presence, what we had required a large work force, now it has gone, we still have a large work force, so what's the answer, perhaps a slimming down of the population, but even that is fraught with consequences. The bottom line I believe, is to get back much of what has been lost, as this country cannot be prosperous with a disheartened and unemployed work force.
Myself, twenty odd years of continued industrial employment, I even used to think it bad of me to take days off sick and in those twenty years of employment I had taken exactly ten days off sick in that time. I used to have the belief, that once a job was got, hang onto it with finger nails if one has to and take whatever abuses were thrown at one, as having a job was the most important thing in life for a male adult. That attitude created by the 1980,s employment situation in the North West of England where in my locale it was 25 % unemployment and riots on the streets.
Benefits, government hand outs was a dirty notion to me, after a very brief experience of the old type of unemployment system, where the term ub40 became and anchor around one's neck, a dirty word as with it one was considered unclean. I was not going to put myself through that ever again, so work doing whatever, for whatever I could get was the order of the day.
As long term unemloyed, I do realise what my problem is, and it is the very same for many of those who are in a similar position, we are totally demoralised, been screwed around too much and, there really is not much hope, unless there is a vast industrial change in this country, as being taught history of our nation has one distinct disadvantage, it enables the comparison between the now and the past, in living memory. and in that living memory, many who are now long term unemployed had work and were valued as part of a work force.
Housing and council tax benefits, well, without a decent income coming in, what option is there, people have to live, the economy has to be kept going, as benefits stimulate the economy and by that, the scroungers are doing their bit with their fags and beer.
But, we are all locked into a self perpetuating system which actually creates work. For that system to work, people have to be kept in the system, the unemployed are necessary, because they necessitate the employment of others, and of course provide successive governments with a butt to whip as the reason why they continulally fail to live up to their electioneering promises.
there used to be really good re-training agencies i sat my ECDL in one.but cut backs seem to have shrunken them......... :cry:
