Originally posted on the void:
Virgin Media are the latest company to sacrifice their public image to
benefit from unpaid workers on Government schemes. According to the
company, employing young people on Traineeships and paying them nothing
can bring “corporate and commercial opportunities”.
The shocking admission comes in a leaflet advertising the Traineeship programme (pdf), which can involve up to six months work without pay. They have been designed to ‘prepare’ young people for an ‘apprenticeship’ at below the minimum wage and participants are often not even offered one of these at the end of the scheme. Instead they are given an ‘exit interview’ to pat them on the heads for all their unpaid work.
As pointed out by @boycottworkfare, unpaid work on Traineeships is not yet mandatory, although no doubt many Jobcentre advisors will try and pretend they are. They may soon be right. George Osborne announced in his Autumn Statement that…
The shocking admission comes in a leaflet advertising the Traineeship programme (pdf), which can involve up to six months work without pay. They have been designed to ‘prepare’ young people for an ‘apprenticeship’ at below the minimum wage and participants are often not even offered one of these at the end of the scheme. Instead they are given an ‘exit interview’ to pat them on the heads for all their unpaid work.
As pointed out by @boycottworkfare, unpaid work on Traineeships is not yet mandatory, although no doubt many Jobcentre advisors will try and pretend they are. They may soon be right. George Osborne announced in his Autumn Statement that…
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