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Hi,

 

 

I am on "workfare" at the moment near Glasgow !!!!

 

 

I am actually quite happy with my placement via JobCentrePlus and a local provider. I want to go back into anything "admin", and my placement is an Admin post, where I have learned new skills and am set to learn more in 2015. It gives me something recent to discuss at interviews and looks good on my C.V.

 

 

HOWEVER... we have to attend a job activity session once per week. Unfortunately for me, there is a Manager there who does NOT like me, and spent an entire morning making a fool of me, telling me I was having a bad morning (I was not), etc., etc. When I challenged him and told him I had "done nothing", I was told this was WHY I was being picked on !!!!

 

 

I have contacted "Learn Direct" on a complaint form. Learn Direct are in partnership with this local provider. However, it seems they cannot handle my complaint until January 5th 2015 !!!! At this point, all Hell is bound to break loose, as I have not spoken to this Manager directly.

 

 

I feel for JSA allowance folk are being set out to pick up litter and all sorts - job search at the same time - all for garbage money - and some folk try to make our lives Hell over and above this.

 

 

The whole thing has not been thought through properly, with some folks' Managers not quite realising how many hours job seekers have to do, etc., etc.

 

 

What would other folk do? Thanx for advice and Merry Xmas !!!

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HOWEVER... we have to attend a job activity session once per week. Unfortunately for me, there is a Manager there who does NOT like me, and spent an entire morning making a fool of me, telling me I was having a bad morning (I was not), etc., etc.

 

You have done the right thing by filing a complaint through the correct channels. Unfortunately, this will take time so try not to react to any provocation from this "manager". All I can suggest is to record any/all sessions with this individual using covert methods if need be. Once you have 'evidence' of unreasonable behaviour or bullying, it is much easier to progress a complaint or defend against false accusations.

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Thanx folks !!

 

 

I have just received a 'phone call from Learn Direct. Seems they are very serious about things being "just so".

 

 

They have suggested I may be moved to another area for job activity, which I think would be best. Once the provider is spoken to in the New Year, they ain't gonna be happy with me !!

 

 

So... anyone else out there not happy.... STAND UP TO IT !!!

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Hold on, are you on workfare for on organisation that makes money and thus they are getting free labour and also at the expense of a paid employee that may have been in that position? If your placement could be illegal and you should be getting paid. I would seriously question this as it is admin which most likely means there was once an administrator getting paid. Can you enlighten us to the company name at all? Is it a well known organisation? Obviously no pressure if you do not wish to divulge

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Hi,

 

 

Don't wish to name the company, as I could wind up with a LOT worse to do !!!! :-)

 

 

The company is a charity and has only quite recently started, so it is unclear whether there will be paid employment. I would imagine it would just be part-time somehow !!!

 

 

I am just over half way through this CWP, so just gotta keep going !!!!!!!

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That is fine, I wasn't expecting you to anyway. It just grinds me as some charities DO MAKE PROFITS and thus some of their subsidary arms are profit making. The last organisation I worked for was a 'charity' but made in excess of £6m per annum

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I think this whole "workfare" thing can feel like more of a punishment to folk, depending on what they are doing !!! If you are picking up litter, I am not sure what on Earth this is supposed to do for a CV, or yourself !!!

 

 

It is just a pity everything has to have a "community" benefit, rather than giving folk "proper" jobs in "proper" Companies.

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Yes, I know that !!! :-)

 

 

But this is what is fundamentally "wrong". If you don't really see a light at the end of the tunnel (i.e. a paid job at least at the end of CWP), then it is just gonna feel like the worse thing.

 

 

If organisations such as Councils make so much in profits, then it is high time for some "proper" jobs for locals. :-)

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"If organisations such as Councils make so much in profits, then it is high time for some "proper" jobs for locals. smile.gif"

They don't. Having come from a LA background myself I can assure you they do not make profits. In fact their budgets are being stripped to the bone at the moment. Mainly due to wasteage over many years and 'jobs' made up that served no real purpose.In years to come LAs will be no more than a privately run entity

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