2 Sisters sacks workers and employs workfare

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-18887436

http://www.foodmanufacture.co.uk/Bu...ight&utm_medium=OnSite&utm_campaign=copyright

by 'job interview' i suppose they mean the contemporary equivalent of a restart.

I really wouldn't fancy eating one of their pizzas.

not any more.

i might be wrong, but i was under the impression grimsby was in lincolnshire and not leicestershire.

just posted this on the Tesco thread, but yes, it needs its own thread..

has the Guardian picked up on it yet?

btw, its incredible how they spin this and media accepts it at face value

that's good, because it's got its own thread. i'm pleased this thread about a disaster of a story has your approval.

YAWN....

^^ Yet Another Wanker Numpty

this is absolutely insane. workfare at a fast food joint? what the fuck do they think is going to happen?

It's a factory

Its a massive con, there is a similar factory here that employs mostly East Europeans, really long shifts, minimum wage, my friend was taken on with absolutely no experience, what sort of training do they need, the college is complicit in this as well..

My ex used to work at the notts pizza factory just after we graduated. It was a horrible place, and I think she was the only british person working there at the time. There is absolutely no training or skills to be learnt there, it's pure slave labour. What an utter pile of shit.

About the same as when anyone works their...


But seriously shitty move by the group..

Is the suggestion that this company upped sticks and moved it's factory, creating a new subsidiary in the process in order to get 100 people to do a week of free labour?

Certainly not the 4 cheese special

Sacking 350 people sounds about right.

It will be a continual process of 'free' one week labour, as I said, no experience is needed, they will be on the line from day one..

Depressing.

so:

1. get sacked
2. sign on
3. get workfare at your old job
4. win an interview
5. get job
6. goto 1.

very nice

This was in the Times a year or so back... it's the reality of workfare.

Except stage 5 doesn't happen.

and therefore 6) is goto 2

/pedant

No, stage 6 would become stage 5

my pedantry has been out-pedanted. Well played sir, well played.

This is just the YTS of the 80s all over again. I worked for a place that did this with alarming regularity - i.e. take on trainee for £30 per week, at end of 6 months find spurious reason to sack them before obliged to give them full-time job on proper pay, take on new trainee at £30 per week, etc, etc, I thought that sort of shit was consigned to history - cunts!

Yeah, but you got extra money on YTS, don't get that on workfare.. and sometimes YTS involved 1-2 year placements with proper training.. mostly workfare doesn't even pretend to be about training, just experience.

Which is actually five cheeses, usually.

That cartoon illustrates perfectly why street-cleaners aren't issued with "pigstickers" anymore, though.