[andrewb]

Originally Posted by garinda

To me these measures aren't nearly tough enough, and are just the sort of namby-pamby measures I've come to expect from New Labour...whoops, the New Conservatives.

These schemes were tried before in the eighties under various names, Y.O.P.s being one of them.

All that happened was that unscrupulous employers took advantage of cheap subsidised labour, then got rid of them after twelve months, only to take on the next one.

I think the public would find any party more appealing if they were really intent on being tough over the abuse of the benefits system.

Sadly this doesn't seem the case here.

The company gets paid when the person has been in a job for a year. The companies would be providing training and the 'employees' would be doing community work as well. It's not a case of the tax payer subsidising a sweatshop so that private companies can wreak the benifits of free labour.