JC Denton wrote on Aug 1
st, 2013 at 7:09pm:
i doubt work for the dole raises self-esteem. ive done similiar schemes before and it still feels like youre at the bottom of the pile. i never got why the government finds it so hard to find people real work. just get dolies to dig ditches for the minimum wage or build roads or something. cant be that hard. or force employers to hire the non-deranged and willing unemployed.
another solution to helping the unemployed would be to crack down on age based discrimination in jobs and GAP based discrimination (not giving people a job or an interview because they have gaps of 6+ months or so on their resume). my recommendation to all people who are over 30 or have gaps is just to make up jobs and give phone number references to your mates and prep them on what to say.
You raise a few good points there.
A thought: Would discouraging the use of 12-hour shifts in favour of three 8-hour shifts be
of assistance re the unemployment problem?
It would certainly 'create' a few real jobs.
I've worked rotating 8-hour shifts before, and much prefer them to alternating 12-hour shifts.
Re WfD: I supervise a couple of mature-aged WfD participants in the course of my volunteer
work. They're fair-dinkum, and want jobs, but neither feels that WfD is helping them in any way.
I do accept that it may be beneficial for the young, or those who simply want to keep busy rather
than just sit around, but there really does need to be some structure to it, and it simply must
include some kind of training.
If participants could come away from WfD with some form of ticket/qualifications, fine, but at
present there is nothing. And I mean exactly that, nothing.
I do have some quite good ideas in this regard, and
will be starting a thread around the
subject in Health & Welfare in the near future.
EDIT: Topic started. All
sensible suggestions/options welcomed.
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