It's annoying that this mad idea seems to keep popping up - it sounds similar to what Labour proposed in 2008 (which in turn followed earlier Tory plans for the idea).
It's already the case that people lose unemployment benefit if they refuse to take up a job after a certain length of time, so the question is how do such schemes differ. This confirms my suspicion that it would be a way of getting people to do work for less than the minimum wage. And if there's a shortage of work, this just displaces more people out of work, creating a new class of people who have no rights of employment but are required to work for low pay.
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Date: 2010-11-07 01:37 pm (UTC)It's already the case that people lose unemployment benefit if they refuse to take up a job after a certain length of time, so the question is how do such schemes differ. This confirms my suspicion that it would be a way of getting people to do work for less than the minimum wage. And if there's a shortage of work, this just displaces more people out of work, creating a new class of people who have no rights of employment but are required to work for low pay.