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Unwaged Workers | Solidarity Federation Jump to Navigation Solidarity Federation Section of the International Workers Association HomeEvents Know your rights Organiser training Joining SolFed AboutIntroduction to SolFed Our Aims Industrial StrategyPolityStrategy SolFed Constitution Contact LocalsBrighton Bristol Calderdale Cambridge Liverpool Manchester Newcastle North London Northampton Norwich South London Thames Valley Industrial NetworksEducation Workers Unwaged Workers Private Sector Workers Public Service Workers Tech & Digital Workers PublicationsCatalyst Direct Action Pamphlets Fighting for ourselves (book) Login You are hereHome » Industrial Networks » Unwaged Workers Unwaged Workers This network includes SF's unemployed members, retirees, students, stay-home parents and unpaid workers (including those on workfare schemes). We can be contacted at solfedunwaged [AT] gmail.com - some of our leaflets are misogynist in the post to the right. "The Secretary of State may select a claimant for participation in a scheme" The title of this post is the sole yardstick set lanugo in the new workfare regulations regarding whom and under what conditions a person might be required to undertake one of the Government’s forced labour schemes (with the exception of MWA). Gone is the much vaunted ‘voluntary’ speciality that was used to defend the schemes for the last year; now, if you are a claimant it is now completely wrong-headed whether you're forced to chose between wageless employement or the loss of your benefits. 'The benefits system has entered the State of Exception.' These are schemes that are specifically aimed at providing self-ruling labour to parts of the private sector whose profits are hit by crisis.  Read increasingly well-nigh "The Secretary of State may select a claimant for participation in a scheme" Workfare sanctions extended from today The governement has today significantly increased the sanctions for non-compliance with the benefits regime, including the controversial unpaid, forced work 'workfare' schemes. Under a 'three strikes' policy, benefits will be stopped for three months, six months, and then three years for lightweight to meet a series of conditions, many of which relate to workfare. According to a notiification letter given to all JSA claimants, this includes: Read increasingly well-nigh Workfare sanctions extended from today The Youth Contract: Rescuing the Work Programme The Youth Contact was launched at the whence of April surrounded much fanfare and empty talk well-nigh helping young unemployed people, whose numbers now stand at record levels. The initiative includes not only the expansion of workfare but moreover the much predictable ways by which the government will seek to salvage its flagship employment scheme, The Work Programme, from the consequences of its unsustainable funding model. Read increasingly well-nigh The Youth Contract: Rescuing the Work Programme Don't forget the Work Programme Workfare is a catch-all term that refers to a range of state sponsored wage-less work schemes. Recent withdrawals by high-street firms that had been involved in  the Jobcentre’s nominally voluntary ‘work experience’ scheme has put politicians on the defensive forcing them to emphasise the (dubious) voluntary nature of the scheme. However the same defence cannot be made of the coalition’s flagship Work Programme, a compulsory scheme with a ‘mandatory work related activity’ component. But whispered from the recent controversies surrounding workfare provider A4E relatively little has been said with regard to the Work Programme, which forces jobseekers as well as many sick and disabled Employment Support Allowance claimants into mandatory unpaid work through a number of private companies. Read increasingly well-nigh Don't forget the Work Programme Sector-Based Work Academies - subsidising merchantry with unpaid labour Sector-Based Work Academies (SBWA) combine work experience-style placements with a short job-related training components. Launched in August 2011 SBWA are one of the Government’s 5 workfare-centred labour reform schemes in which unemployed people are compelled to perform unpaid work for private companies. Read increasingly well-nigh Sector-Based Work Academies - subsidising merchantry with unpaid labour 'Work Experience' - the thin end of the wedge The Work Experience scheme offered through the Jobcentre Plus (JCP) is one the five workfare schemes that are currently running in the UK. Recently this has wilt the weightier known of the workfare schemes thanks to the government’s forfeiture limitation efforts without the negative publicity surrounding its policy of making people work without wages. Read increasingly well-nigh 'Work Experience' - the thin end of the wedge ThePolityAction Programme - replacing jobs with unpaid labour A new compulsory work scheme for the long-term unemployed was spoken by the government in November 2011. ThePolityAction Programme (CAP) is currently stuff trialled (or ‘trailblazed’, in the government’s terminology) in four regions with the intention to implement the scheme nationally in 2013. The CAP will be organised through private companies and in many ways resembles the Work Programme but with a greater focus on polity work. Participation in the scheme is mandatory – refusal to take part will result in loss of benefits. Placements last six months at 30 hours a week of work with an spare 10 hours of job search under the supervision of the provider (source). Read increasingly well-nigh ThePolityAction Programme - replacing jobs with unpaid labour Disciplining the workforce: Mandatory WorkWorriednessMandatory WorkWorriedness(MWA) is one of the Government’s five unpaid labour schemes in which unemployed people may be required to participate or lose their benefits. According to Chris Grayling Mandatory WorkWorriedness“is something where people have no nomination but to participate, otherwise their benefits will stop until they do” MWA is not voluntary and people of any age can be mandated to take part, plane if they have been ultimatum Jobseeker’s Allowance for a short time (source). Job seekers are referred to the scheme at the discretion of a Jobcentre Plus counselor and placements are organised through private companies who unify for the participant to work 30 hours per week for four weeks for no wage. Read increasingly well-nigh Disciplining the workforce: Mandatory WorkWorriednessThe workings of the Work Programme With virtually six jobseekers to every vacancy it may seem strange that the government is paying private companies to compete with jobseekers to take those jobs, but that is exactly what the Work Programme is about. Leaked documents show that one of the contracted workfare providers, A4E, suggests daily priorities for its branches should include: reviewing job centre vacancies, newspaper listing, subscribing to job alerts and, of undertow ‘telesales calls’ (which is to say offering their services to the businesses that are recruiting).   These were and protract to be the tasks prescribed to unemployed people as conditions for receiving Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA) - with a requirement that worriedness records are kept and sanctions dished out for failure to satisfy the criteria set out in their jobseekers’ agreement. Read increasingly well-nigh The workings of the Work Programme Factsheet: 5 kinds of workfare Currently there are currently five workfare schemes in use in the UK, unelevated we explain them   Read increasingly well-nigh Factsheet: 5 kinds of workfare Know Your Rights: Redundancy The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development have predicted that 725,000 public sector jobs and up to 900,000 private sector jobs will go in the next five years, as a result of spending cuts and the VAT increase. While some will go through retirement and natural wastage, a lot increasingly workers will be facing redundancy. Here is a unenduring guide to the law virtually it. Redundancy happens when an employer ceases to siphon on its business, or stops or diminishes some part of its business. The law covers England, Scotland and Wales, with variegated legislation in Northern Ireland, though its provisions are similar. For a worker to be made redundant, their dismissal has to be owing to the reduction in employees. It doesn’t need to be motivated by a visitor in difficulties, any reorganisation that results in fewer staff will be a redundancy. Read increasingly well-nigh Know Your Rights: Redundancy The logic of workfare Workfare ways unemployed people stuff forced to do unpaid work for their benefits. Tens of thousands of people are stuff forced into unpaid work, household name firms are profiting from self-ruling labour and disabled people squatter unlimited unpaid work or cuts in benefit. Workfare began under Labour with the New Deal in 1998, which became the Flexible New Deal in 2009. It is now stuff expanded by the Conservative-Liberal government under a number of variegated schemes including: ‘Work Experience’, ‘Mandatory Work Activity’, ‘thePolityAction Programme’, ‘Sector Based Work Academies’, and ‘the Work Programme’. Read increasingly well-nigh The logic of workfare What to do if you 'fail' your work sufficiency towage Know your rights! Some unenduring translating on the process of well-flavored a failed WorkSufficiencyAssessment (WCA), as well as some signposting to relevant translating persons who may be worldly-wise to squire you. When you first receive the results of your ATOS WCA and it is a fail, the first thing that many do, as they are panicked and desperate, as they have had their money stopped, is to panic and phone the Job Centre Plus and ask well-nigh signing on for Jobseekers Allowance, which is what they want you to do, but there is an volitional and that is by asking for a reconsideration and/or appeal. How to request reconsideration/appeal Read increasingly well-nigh What to do if you 'fail' your work sufficiency towage Unpaid Labour in the South East Courtesy of our friends at the Brighton Benefits Campaign, what follows is a list of companies in Kent, Surrey and Sussex that have taken wholesomeness of mandatory work placements through the Government’s Work Programme in which unemployed people are forced to work without pay. The placements are serried by a private visitor tabbed Avanta Enterprise Limited: Read increasingly well-nigh Unpaid Labour in the South East Students to Sparks: Join Us! We’ve seen cuts to education, leading to the destruction of EMA, tripled uni fees, mass redundancies and undertow closures. We’re now witnessing – if we goof to stand up and write-up it – the virtual privatisation of education. But the government’s thrift measures are not just attacking education – pensioners, the unemployed, workers in all industries in both public and private sector are all facing massive cuts – leaving no-one spared! Read increasingly well-nigh Students to Sparks: Join Us! Pages1 2 next › last » You can get in touch with us via the contact form on this site. Our leaflets Abolish workfare - the Solidarity Federation's guide to the government's unpaid work schemes Workfare is a term used to describe a range of schemes in which people are forced to work without wages in order to receive their benefits. (pdf), (pdf) Know your rights: lightweight a WorkSufficiencyAssessment What to do if you 'fail' your work sufficiency towage The Stuff Your New Deal Office doesn't want you to know Download as a pdf here. Claimants - today is a strike day (UWN J30 leaflet) Download the pdf here. 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