Burger King quits work experience scheme for jobless

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(Press Assoc.) Burger King has announced it has pulled out of the government's controversial work experience scheme.

The fast food giant said it had decided to cease its involvement in the Get Britain Working programme because of recent concerns expressed by the public.

The scheme has attracted growing criticism in recent weeks with opponents describing it as a form of slave labour because young people worked for nothing, while keeping their benefits.

Burger King said it had registered for the programme six weeks ago intending to take on young people for work experience at its Slough headquarters, but had not recruited anyone.

full: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/feb/25/burger-king-quits-work-experience-scheme

The Guardian also reports: "Welfare boss Emma Harrison made a pile renting out her stately home to A4E": "Emma Harrison, the prime minister's former family tsar who quit amid allegations of "fat cat" pay and fraud, received around £1.7m over two years from leasing out properties, including her family stately home, to the firm she built on the back of state-funded welfare-to-work programmes." So this welfare-to-work thing turned out to be a for-profit corporate scam.

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1. Burger King quits work experience scheme for jobless

Work experience with a Michelin starred chef would be a good thing, but what is anybody going to learn at Burger King? Sweeping up? Cooking tasteless food? Cleaning toilets?

If people want to do that, let Burger King pay them at least the minimum wage.

[oldironside]

2. Takes me back to the early 80s.

Jobs not YOPS! Is it just coincidence that we had a Tory government then, too?

And as for Ms Harrison: Did she really think no one would question this? Their greed is only exceeded by their arrogance.

[Ken Burch]

3. Indeed. and those traits are exceeded only by their overconfidence

They are all representative of the classic authoritarian personality.