There's nothing fair about workfare

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Message Received: Feb 23 2012, 11:25 AM

From: " Brie Lowery, Change.org "

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Subject: There's nothing fair about workfare

Tell ASDA, Poundland & Topshop to stop the use of unpaid

workfare

Dear Concerned member of the public,

Unemployment is rocketing, but big businesses are using free labour

instead of hiring new employees.

head is a computer programming graduate from Teesside who

worked unpaid for 8 weeks at Maplin under the Government's workfare scheme.

During the placement he wasn't able to take a day off, even if it was for an

interview for full-time work.

thinks the workfare scheme is exploiting rather than solving

unemployment by giving large companies like ASDA, Poundland & Topshop free

temporary staff. He's started a campaign on Change.org asking the CEOs of the

biggest company partners to withdraw from the workfare scheme. Click here to

join ' campaign.

Already some big businesses have withdrawn from the scheme under

public pressure to stop using an unpaid workforce including Maplin, Sainsbury's

and Waterstones. On Tuesday Tesco announced that there would be paid placements

and a guarantee of a job for those that satisfactorily complete their work

experience. thinks that if the public keep up the pressure on all workfare

partners, the scheme will be dropped altogether.

understands the need to gain experience to get a job but

thinks unpaid placements like these are unfair and leading to less jobs in a

time of recession. A Tesco manager even admitted that they had no incentive to

hire extra staff when they could get temporary people for free.

Join and tell ASDA, Poundland and Topshop to stop

participating in the workfare scheme. Add your name to the petition now.

Thanks for being part of this,

- Brie and the Change.org team

PS. Over 1650 people have joined you in signing Rowenna's petition

to let local people control the number of betting shops on their high street.

Momentum is building and the campaign has been covered by the BBC, New Statesman

and Daily Mail. You can help grow the campaign by sharing the petition on

Facebook, Twitter or via email and by spreading this link to the petition --

http://chn.ge/y2DehH -- far and wide.

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