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Originally Posted by Gary L

I think this kind of thing will happen with the unemployed. they will be set up to be and look like work experience and confidence building and all that stuff they want to call it.

but all it is, is free labour where they'll be working for their benefits whilst the companies that take on these people will save money by not having to employ and pay a full wage.

and we'll all think it's a good thing.

(A bit OT)
Actually, it's already happening. I've been out of work since July last year and am on the New Deal (whatever that means outside Depression-era America), and if I haven't got a job by August 2011 I've been told I'll be working for my dole. Not a wage - my dole.

Now are employers - any who are obsessed with short-term savings - going to jump at this? Sure they are, it's free labour. I doubt they'll be given - or be interested in - any incentives to actually take people on.

But what about the 'employees'? Oh, they're not important, are they, they're just doing the work.

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