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21/02/2012
Tesco To Offer Paid Work Placements
After a public outcry and calls to boycott, Tesco has said it will now offer paid placements with a guaranteed offer of a job to people on the governments work experience scheme.
While it is still involved with the governments Workfare scheme, Tesco has said that the 1,500 unemployed people referred to them over the next six months will now be given the option of moving from an unpaid work placement onto a four-week paid placement with a guaranteed job offer at the end.
Richard Brasher, CEO of Tesco UK, said: "We know it is difficult for young people to give up benefits for a short-term placement with no permanent job at the end of it. So this guarantee that a job will be available, provided the placement is completed satisfactorily, should be a major confidence boost for young people wanting to enter work on a permanent basis."
They will also continue dialogue with the Department for Work and Pensions with the aim of making sure the scheme in voluntary and that jobseekers would not be penalized should they withdraw.
Members of the Right to Work campaign invaded a Tesco store in Central London on Saturday to protest at a job advert offering "jobseekers allowance plus expenses".
Retailers including Superdrug and Maplins, and mental health charity Mind, have recently withdrawn from the work experience scheme.
While it is still involved with the governments Workfare scheme, Tesco has said that the 1,500 unemployed people referred to them over the next six months will now be given the option of moving from an unpaid work placement onto a four-week paid placement with a guaranteed job offer at the end.
Richard Brasher, CEO of Tesco UK, said: "We know it is difficult for young people to give up benefits for a short-term placement with no permanent job at the end of it. So this guarantee that a job will be available, provided the placement is completed satisfactorily, should be a major confidence boost for young people wanting to enter work on a permanent basis."
They will also continue dialogue with the Department for Work and Pensions with the aim of making sure the scheme in voluntary and that jobseekers would not be penalized should they withdraw.
Members of the Right to Work campaign invaded a Tesco store in Central London on Saturday to protest at a job advert offering "jobseekers allowance plus expenses".
Retailers including Superdrug and Maplins, and mental health charity Mind, have recently withdrawn from the work experience scheme.
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