Hunt (rhyming slang) announces 2 million free workers for UK companies

[beyond our ken]

So instead of training and rehabillitation, long term sick will be forced to take "workplace placements"  to allow them to continue to take benefits, no mention of jobs as a result, just placements.  At the same time, after citing the increase in the living wage, he will supress wages for the already low-paid because the incentive to be a competitive employer will be taken away.

A two-edged sword that will be unique in that both edges will be cutting the same people twice with the same swipe. 

[exiledfan]

2 hours ago, beyond our ken said:

So instead of training and rehabillitation, long term sick will be forced to take "workplace placements"  to allow them to continue to take benefits, no mention of jobs as a result, just placements.  At the same time, after citing the increase in the living wage, he will supress wages for the already low-paid because the incentive to be a competitive employer will be taken away.

A two-edged sword that will be unique in that both edges will be cutting the same people twice with the same swipe. 

I work for a company that offers no sick pay after redundancy with a company with good sick pay and am surprised at the amount of companies that don't offer this even for long serving employees.  If a company is over a certain size their should be more emphasis on supporting recuperating or making reasonable adjustments for employees to keep in work and make a contribution to the running of the company. Silently the Tory party has eroded workers rights and now that an election is on the way it's popular bite sized policies to keep the swing voter's and doners on side to minimise an election thumping. 

[stlucifer]

1 hour ago, exiledfan said:

I work for a company that offers no sick pay after redundancy with a company with good sick pay and am surprised at the amount of companies that don't offer this even for long serving employees.  If a company is over a certain size their should be more emphasis on supporting recuperating or making reasonable adjustments for employees to keep in work and make a contribution to the running of the company. Silently the Tory party has eroded workers rights and now that an election is on the way it's popular bite sized policies to keep the swing voter's and doners on side to minimise an election thumping. 

We can only hope that the normal working many weigh up the pros and cons and realises that only the much better off will benefit from these changes. That and the "silver" voters realise they're being screwed over too. I don't think this mini budget will fool too many into changing their minds come the next election.

Edited November 22, 2023 by stlucifer