It will only work if the attitude of employers towards working mothers changes. If I have to have time off because my kids are sick then I don't expect to cop shit when I return to work!
(I have always worked btw it's an example)
opinion on the topic being posted here along with so many political threads:
tiresome.
lp
Nothing to say on the topic, but can I just point out that 'artical' is actually spelt "article".
My dictionary knows you know! Muahaaaa! :twisted:
Well Shireen has just lost her job so lets see how long she has to search to get a job and how long it will be before she is labeled a work shy parent....
Hehe bad Steve. There is a big difference between those who actually want to work and those who don't bother trying. ;)
I understand peoples views on making even more people unemployed, when job losses are on the increase but.... I believe that if you are out of work ( not the disabled people ) and able to work, then you should be either found a job or do community work for your money.
We have a benefit culture now where people have seen their parents in that position, and they feel they can carry on in the same way.
It just is not right where someboday who can work is allowed to stay on the benefit gravy train for years and years.
This is something that happened to a friend of my ex's. She had not done a days work and at 17 had her first child. She then had a further two. Her Husband had long since gone and she spent the next God knows how many years getting her benefits. When her youngest child reached 16, they said she now had to find work or have her benfits cut. Guess what? She found a job as a Doctors receptionist, within two weeks.
It was always a case with her, not can't work, but don't want to, and as someone rightly said " why should she have had too ". As Governments made it too easy for her.
We have bred a whole generation of benefit people, who can work but we don't force them too. There are always exceptions to everything, and I would hate for genuine people who cannot work, be forced too. That is not right. Just target the work shy, and get them to do something for their money. When a child goes to school they have 5 hours where they COULD do something to help someone.
It is a nightmare scenario, but somebody has to tackle this sick benefit culture we find ourselves in. We are running out of money and those that can contribute, bloody well should be made too.
Why should I work, if Polish are coming over here doing our work, paying taxes for me to pick up my dole?
Because I am not a lazy scrounger. I know a couple of Polish workers. They think we are mad to pay people money to nothing, but they are happy to take to work, and good on them.
It takes 2 parents to make children, why pick on just one?
Think you seem to forget that a lot of single mums have no experience, a lot being in long term relationships or married where the husband/father was working and supporting them all, its ok saying lets force them into work but are we also going to force employers to employ them, given they have no experience working? Especially when there are another 30 or so people applied for the vacancy that does have the experience, just wished it was all as black and white as that.
We all know there’s people out there who sponge off our benefits system, but this is not a scheme intended to weed out the spongers, its nothing more than an opportunity to pick on one section of our society, funnily enough the weakest, next they’ll be saying we should never retire and work till we die so they can cut the benefits bill more.
Whether you agree or not kent the fact is that if most of these single mums did get a job they would be entitled to more benefits than they get now as help with child minders and working tax credits would double or triple the benefit they receive at present.
So the question is, do we want to cut our annual spending bill, or do we want to cut unemployment figures because we cant have both and unfortunately cutting the unemployment figures costs us more.
So the government want there to be less of a drain on its finances, by forcing people to work, who are using the system.
I'm in agreement, however, it is like bringing in a congestion charge before tackling the transport situation.
Before forcing people to take jobs to get them off the benefits system, would I be wrong in thinking that one way of doing that would be to deport anyone who does not have the right to work, to deport any foreign national resident who commits a serious crime, and to punish employers using cheap illegal labour?
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