| Posted: 24 October 2008 at 4:09pm | IP Logged | 12
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"Actually, the people on welfare have one step up in that they can get free job training that people not on welfare can't get. "
As I pointed out in my original post, not if the "job training" they get is only for jobs that they're only eligible for as long as they're on welfare, because the "welfare workers" are cheaper and more convenient for the employers. That's the same problem as arises with a lot of "job training" in "for profit" prisons. The prisoners "train" for jobs that are not open to non-prisoners, because even at minimum wage, they'd cost too much.
A "welfare work" program only works if they start on the job, train on the job while on welfare, then transition into holding the very same job off welfare. But a lot of employers exploit the system (I know it's happened in your country, something similar happens often in my country as well) by getting "trainee welfare workers", then, when they're asked whether they want to hire these people for real, suddenly they're no good.
A lot of employers are in favor of "welfare workers" because they're cheap, "disposable" labor. Hey, I'd like nothing more than to think that employers who hire "welfare workers" or people in job training programs to get people off welfare , are eager to hire these people to work for them at a decent wage. Some employers are like that. Others just see these programs as subsidized labor and have no intention of converting from subsidized labor to real (and more expensive) labor.
But then again, it's okay for people with money to abuse the system.
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