Quick Fix

Just around the corner from where I work there is a private job agency. Apart from adverts for skilled workers, there is a sign inviting anyone who wants ‘day work’ to be there be there at 5.30 am each day to be picked up; payment at the end of the day. I suggest this sign could be moved 100 yards to the local Job Centre with the additional wording that job seekers and claimants would be paid their benefits at the end of the week-subject to satisfactory attendance and output.
Think of the advantages for the employer. No wages, tax or national insurance to pay! The claimant/worker does some work in exchange for benefit and by being forced to break the home daytime TV rut may well be galvanized to seek paid work and become a worthwhile productive citizen.
I realize that there will be some reluctant or even disruptive ‘employees’ but they could be identified and given other work perhaps under the control of an understanding eastern European Gangmaster.

If the working taxpayer who has to be away from home and at work for 10 hours a day is expected to fund the voluntary unemployed, then the least he should expect is that they also should be away from the comfort of their homes for the same period of time.
I admit I have said this before and would also include age 14+ truants to give them an idea of the life that awaits them if they don’t take the opportunities that an education provides.
Both groups could exchange some of the 48-hour working week plus travel time, for additional vocational training in the building industry.

I also suggest that no one who opts to work part-time should, by reason of increased benefits and concessions, be better off than colleagues who work full time.

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