Originally posted on the void:
A computer repair shop in Bristol has become one of the first companies to be caught boasting about forcing people to work without pay on the latest workfare scheme.
Byteback IT Solutions were recently featured in the Bristol Post after being visited by George Osborne due to their involvement in Community Work Placements. These placements involve six months full time workfare under the threat of benefits being stopped.
This is a wonderful arrangement according to the company’s director Andy Town who said: “We recycle old computers so if they turn it on and make it work, everyone’s a winner but if they don’t, there’s nothing to break and it hasn’t cost us anything,”
When challenged on twitter about this vile exploitation, the company claimed, in a now deleted tweet, that people on workfare are ‘employees of the state’, as if it’s perfectly acceptable for private companies to have their wage…
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