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

Oh right - will scroll

Am not that lazy :)

misty0 This is pretty much the situation that will be tested out in the High Court. The person who's taking the case is a geology graduate who was forced to work in Poundland, and her argument, I think, was that she had worked in retail, pubs and so on as a student and her placement wasn't in anyway developing her, giving her new skills or making her any more employable. The same would be true for many recent graduates, who are likely to have worked in the retail and service industries during their degrees and will already have acquired shelf-stacking and till-operating skills. It's ridiculous to pretend that the scheme does anything other than provide free labour for large companies who can well afford to pay for it at market rate. I will be interested to see how the court case turns out.

Petition signed

Petition signed.

eighties chick - yes i'll be watching with interest too. Sadly i dont hold out alot of hope though.

I'd rather see my DD pushing a broom around a vetinary waiting room than the back room of a pound store. I could at least see some logic in that. But there's no choice for where these youngsters are sent.

Petition signed. I will be boycotting Tesco and Boots, does anyone have a link to a list of offending companies?

I have signed the petition too. Is it possible to have a full list of groups participating in Workfare... I will be boycotting them and so will my friends and family.

There have also been cases brought by entirely voluntary interns like KateSpade. The story about it in the Guardian also has other very informative links.

There's no coercion for interns, but otherwise the case is the same: you work for a company, you get paid by a company.

Disgusting.

No problem with JSA for working on non-profit community projects.

No prpblem with JSA for working for a charity.

Huge issue with working for a multi-national such as Tesco for just JSA.

The work they are doing for JSA provides direct benefit to Tesco so the worker should be paid the going rate.

I'm frothing

Didn't Nick Clegg have quite a lot to say about unpaid internships in banks and law firms? or did I imagine this?

Civil servants' recommendation of "no changes to the law and a focus on increasing both paid and unpaid internships numbers ? is at dramatic variance with statements by the deputy prime minister Nick Clegg, who said last spring that he wanted an end to unpaid internships as they reduced social mobility."

From that same Guardian article.

Havent had time to read this whole thread so apologies if you have already seen this article but in case you havent .............

www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/feb/16/disabled-unpaid-work-benefit-cuts?CMP=twt_fd

List here

List of Companies using workfare, a few surprises in there too:

Ready for this?

99p stores
a4e
Alpha Stream ? Kent
Asda
ATS
BHS ? British Home Stores [1]
Boots
Burger King
Burton
Age Concern
Alton Towers [2]
Argos
Asian Star Community Radio LTD
Barnardos
Bookers Wholesale
Carillion ? Kent
British Heart Foundation
Capability Scotland
Cancer Research
Chessington World of Adventures [2]
DB Accident Repair ? Kent
DC Cleaning Sussex
Diamond Glass Medway ? Kent
Dorothy Perkins [1]
Envirostream ? Kent
Evans [1]
Finsbury Park Business Forum
F&S Interiors ? Kent
Go Response ? Kent
Haringey Council
Helen & Douglas House Hospice ? Maidenhead
HMV [3]
Holiday Inn
Holland & Barrett
Gorgie City Farm
Greggs the bakers
JA Glover ? Kent
Jessup Electrical Wholesale Ltd ? Kent
JJ Vickers & Sons Ltd ? Kent
Kennedy Scott
Kent Flooring Supplies ? Kent
Kent Space ? Kent
Legoland Parks [2]
London Eye [2]
Madame Tussauds [2]
Marie Curie
Maplin
Matalan
Mayhem Paintball ? Kent
McDonald?s
Medway Council
Medway Tyres ? Kent
Miss Selfridge
Mr Gleam ? Sussex
Newham Council
Newhaven Community Development
Oxfam
Olympic Glass ? Kent
Omnico Plastics Ltd ? Kent
Outfit [1]
Payless ? Kent
PDSA
Pizza Hut
Plumbase ? Kent
Poundland
Poundstretcher
PPDG
Primark
Process Plant Services Ltd ? Kent
RBLI
Regency Guillotine ? Kent
Richmond Fellowship
Rock Circus [2]
Romney Resource Kent
Royal Mail
RNR Performance Cars ? Kent
Saffron Acres Project
Salvation Army
Savers
Sealife Centres [2]
Scope
Scout Enterprises
Servest ? Kent, London
Shelter
SHOC Slough Homeless
Signs & Imaging Ltd ? Kent
Slough Library
Slough Furniture Project
Southern Membranes Ltd ? Kent
Southern Metal Services ? Kent
southern Roofing & Building Supplies ? Kent
Stephens Fresh Food ? Kent
Superdrug
Swan Lifeline ? Windsor
Tesco
Thorpe Park [2]
Topman [1]
Topshop [1]
The Range ? Sussex
Town and Country Cleaners Kent
Wallis [1]
Warwick Castle [2]
Westvic Enamellers ? Kent
WHSmith
Whittingtons Silk Flower & Plant Centre ? Kent
Wilkinsons

Taken from here

bump.

That list is grim, you would expect this of Asda and Tesco, Primark and Poundland but Shelter. I used to pay monthly to support Shelter and I have always thought that is was a brilliant charity. Whilst I think it's great that they offer volunteering opps to former homeless people it's not acceptable to exploit slave labour. For me it's either raise funds and pay wages or have government funded serfs, I won't support them.

PDSA was the one that made me double check the list.

There's a hell of a lot of places I will be avoiding for as long as I can.

epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/29356 have signed the petition and posted a new link

Kent is awash with exploiting bastards, glad I'm in Sussex.

Do you think it would be reasonable to stop supporting these charities?

ON NEWSNIGHT NOW - BBC2

Signed, sealed and delivered my signature on the e-petition :)

Hope we get lots more!

i have got to say i now support the petition.

signed, sealed and posted on facebook lol

I agree minimathsmouse & molepom about being surprised at charities doing this.

I will boycott Tesco, Asda, Boots etc until they stop participating.

watching Newsnight. Have signed petition.

I watched Newsnight. Just makes me even more .

David Cameron's Big Society.

I am wondering, if this is why it will be called 'Universal Credit'. Are we all to become a nation of 'volunteers', eventually ?

Makes you wonder...

Im watching Question Time and workfare at Tesco has been mentioned on there by Owen Jones. Will have to catch Newsnight on i player.

Signed both petitions. Disgusting the whole thing. I have a couple of friends with cancer. They both had highly skilled jobs for thirty years which they CANNOT DO NOW AS THEY HAVE CANCER.

The thought of them being forced to stack shelves at Tesco or Poundland makes me feel sick.

I also know several people with very severe MH issues who have 'failed' the ATOS test. The effects on them have been dreadful.

Shame on you Cameron.