to think Tesco should fucking well PAY THEIR STAFF?

[QueenOfFlippingEverything]

I know, I know, there have been threads about it already.

But this is so rage-inducing, I want THE WHOLE OF EVERYONE to know about it.

Jobcentre advert placed by Tesco for night shift staff. Who will be paid [drumroll] JSA (£67 a week) plus travel expenses.

Why the fucking fuck should Tesco get their staff for free? Why? Their profits last year were something like £3.5 billion last year!

I know who I think is taking the piss here, and its not the unemployed people who will be forced to work night shifts at Tesco for their £67 a week

Its a disgrace to force people to work when they are Terminally Ill,

Can you imagine what thats like? I hope none of you myself included ever experience that, but its just beyond words!

You mean MN's suggested to cut Tax Credits?

another tesco ad here

jobcentreplus.jobhits.co.uk/CUSTOMER-ASSISTANT---TESCO-id-WOF-22786

CUSTOMER ASSISTANT - TESCO

Vacancy from

Job No:

WOF/22786

SOC Code:

7111

Wage

TRAVEL EXPENSES

Hours

32 HOURS PER WEEK OVER 7 DAYS BETWEEN APPROX 6AM - 11PM

Location

HOYLAND. BARNSLEY S74

Duration

Permanent

Date posted

17 February 2012

Pension details

No details held

Description

This is a Work Experience opportunity for people aged 18-24 years old and mainly claiming JSA for 13 weeks or more. This is an excellent opportunity to gain a full insight into the operation of a Tesco Express Store. . Customers to e-mail CV & covering letter stating suitability and interest in the position PLEASE DONOT CONTACT TESCO DIRECT, you must apply through the Jobcentre.

Not MN, two MNers Kate.

Found this

IDS is not a happy bunny.

Just had automated response from Salvation Army on twitter.

'We offer opportunities for unemployed people to improve work skills & confidence, but not exploitation to increase profits'.

MolPom Tax credits are vital to my family too, every bloody penny goes on food, the irony. However I would much prefer DH was paid a decent wage and his private health care employer wasn't being subsidised to pay low wages. Yep another private hospital sucking funds out of the NHS budget and making profits, don't ask.

Nil, it suggests that they knew they would get opposition, they knew the public would find this repugnant, so much so that they have silenced people!

Is is this why people thought Tesco had pulled out despite no evidence and no proof, then Chris Grayling spoke on the radio, now nothing.

Ooh, just seen you tweet about the DWP fight-back!

Grayling is spinning like a top.

Gob, hammer them with the fact that these schemes are in direct violation of the human rights act 1998. Found on the Direct Gov website, not to mention the EU Law set out by the UN that states the very same thing.

Tell them to get their lawyers ready.

IDS and his gestapo buddy not happy makes me very

What an incredibly skewed report from the Torygraph.

For the record, Mr Grayling, me and my reyther nice degree have done voluntary work and cleaned toilets for a living between professional jobs, and I'm still vehemently opposed to workfare.

Not a job snob. Just a morality snob.

Chris Grayling: "The critics are job snobs."

www.cartoonstock.com/lowres/jsi0023l.jpg

"Workfare and Workhouse are very similar words and frankly pretty similar concepts. I am NEVER voting Tory again!"

Excellent post, MoreBeta. Very heartening

You have said that tax credits should go too and posters have responded that they need them (as do I) but do you mean that tax credits shouldn't be necessary? I certainly agree with that.

AIBU to post this linky?

www.chrisgrayling.net/contact.htm

Torygraph: "Mr Grayling said that 20,000 young people have already moved off benefits after finding full-time jobs after taking up work experience organised by jobcentres."

So "after", not "through", eh Graylie-boy?

I'm a jobsnob? I work for feckin B&Q lol

YANBU. I shall give him a ring on Monday.

I'm really irritated with the torygraph now, so tempted to post on their FB page. They should be ashamed of themsleves, that report smacks of propaganda.

I thought that, "workfare provides thousands of people with routes into permanent employment" was very sneakily-worded. Given that not quite 300 people out of thousands have been offered this

just flag this re the NHS bill as well a looooong list of (mostly) tories who stand to benefit from privatisation.

to all the Twitter-stormers, btw. You guys are smokin'!

What an utter utter cunt. If he fuckin keeps on it i will be phoning the Guardian and telling them that i ended up in the sex industry because of workfare.

Nun, that link has been twitted, FB'd and posted on a few pages on FB regarding workfare just now by me, thanks for that link. "It was a mistake", honest guv.

Thanks Molpom :o)

Carer - do it! Millions will thank you for it.

interesting the almost total news blackout - but then it is the weekend

time to start emailing the business and money editors of all the papers and radio stations so that on Monday morning their inboxes are ROASTING
along with those of all the companies who are SO looking forward to next week - NOT

but interesting that we've been getting corporate responses on the FB pages even over the weekend.
the worm is turning

do we know yet if any MNers have managed to threaten their husbands with congealed breakfast if they do not pull their companies out of WORKFARE?

@boycottworkfare Hi, the position advertised is incorrect. We have asked Jobcentre Plus to remove this position to avoid any confusion.

TescoUK response on twitter

liars