In all the debate about welfare ‘reform’ the small matter of the Jobcentre network’s original primary function has got a bit lost. That function being to create a local labour market for jobseekers, both the employed and the workless and, crucially employers. Jobcentres used to provide a fairly efficient public employment service, free at the point of delivery.
In fact, before the privatisation of Professional and Executive Recruitment the Jobcentre network even addressed the needs of the whole labour market. PER charged for its services and competed with the private sector for business. Naturally, it had to go under the Tories and was sold off to Captain Bob Maxwell, who ran it down after asset stripping its client records.
Today, the Jobcentre’s labour market operation is known for its farcical, almost fully automated vacancy handling system and Universal Jobsmatch. The former seems to be designed to make the case for…
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We or most of us know they are all skivers down at the job centre. And they are all bloody lazy b*****ds. I think 99% of the job centre staff are useless at helping. That means Job Centre Plus centres should be outlawed or sent back to history.
Wondered when Captain Bob would come into the circle of B*****d Buccaneers. This Buccaneering Bob STOLE my pension which I had paid into for years along with thousands of others. Sadly, he was finally laid to rest in Israel’s Garden of Remembrance for heroes. Some bloody hero !
This was the way forward in the crooked learning curve for many commercial crooks who now abound & rule the banks & commerce around the world today.