[WillowTheWhisp]

Originally Posted by lettie

I reckon that the jobs that these people would be given would be in public services and not businesses, those services which are covered by the tax payer, eg hospital cleaning, council buildings, schools etc. Public services are notoriously understaffed, hospital cleaning is a brilliant example. No extra money would have to be spent and there could be twice as many cleaners.
This may have worked in other countries like the USA and Australia but I bet our lot would screw it up somehow.

That would make sense if the cleaning jobs would otherwise be filled by someone else so in effect it would be saving money.