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Arthurgray50@blu · 12-02-2013, 13:10

I can add an item which happened to my son YESTERDAY, and this story sums it up.
My son suffers from Asperger's syndrome and wants to get a job in acting, he has applied for lots of work, but has been turned down, he has diplomas also.

But we found that agents were ripping him off, But we had a call from an agency that he has been with for TWO years, and they found him nothing, BUT they wanted to see him and took him, as he wont go on his own.

They told him that the government now insist that he finds voluntary work of lose his disability benefit that he is on.

A Major chemical company which is near us wants under the government scheme, wants him to work for 12 months FREE to keep his benefit.

We have already stated that he wants to work in acting, and have the correspondence to prove it, yet the agency is insisting that he does this work.

My son will never find a job with the disability that he has, but this insistence from the government is hitting the vulnerable hard and should be stopped and this story highlights the problem that will hit the government hard.

You cannot expect people to work for free, unless there is a guaranteed job at the end of it, and working at Pound land proves the point of forced labour.

And yet the government will challenge it, how expensive that will cost.

12-02-2013, 13:10	#37
Arthurgray50@blu Inactive Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 6,798	Re: Unpaid workschemes are illegal I can add an item which happened to my son YESTERDAY, and this story sums it up. My son suffers from Asperger's syndrome and wants to get a job in acting, he has applied for lots of work, but has been turned down, he has diplomas also. But we found that agents were ripping him off, But we had a call from an agency that he has been with for TWO years, and they found him nothing, BUT they wanted to see him and took him, as he wont go on his own. They told him that the government now insist that he finds voluntary work of lose his disability benefit that he is on. A Major chemical company which is near us wants under the government scheme, wants him to work for 12 months FREE to keep his benefit. We have already stated that he wants to work in acting, and have the correspondence to prove it, yet the agency is insisting that he does this work. My son will never find a job with the disability that he has, but this insistence from the government is hitting the vulnerable hard and should be stopped and this story highlights the problem that will hit the government hard. You cannot expect people to work for free, unless there is a guaranteed job at the end of it, and working at Pound land proves the point of forced labour. And yet the government will challenge it, how expensive that will cost.