{"id":654,"date":"2013-07-31T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-31T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.euroresidentes.com\/euroresiuk\/ageing\/welfare-and-work-2"},"modified":"2019-11-06T12:21:38","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T11:21:38","slug":"welfare-and-work-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euroresidentes.com\/euroresiuk\/ageing\/welfare-and-work-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Welfare and Work"},"content":{"rendered":"
\nI
\nhave been reading an article by Iain Duncan-Smith which was printed in the
\nGuardian on Monday. He is the Secretary of
\nState for Work and Pensions<\/a> in the
\nU.K. government and has designed the new legislation intended to deal with
\nthe so called \u2018welfare-culture\u2019. In the article he uses words that emphasise
\nhis interest in dividing the good guys (\u2018hard-working families\u2019) from the bad guy\u2019s
\n(\u2018shirkers\u2019). His language is aggressive; he in fact uses that same word with
\npride (several times he tells the reader how proud he is), picturing himself as
\na man with a mission. Marginalising vulnerable people, and turning them into
\nvillains, is a poor way of dealing with a genuine issue.<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nHis
\nassumption is that most people who receive benefits are not justified in doing
\nso. Welfare has become for him and his government a dirty word rather than an
\nexpression of social care, which is the mark of a civilised society. He assumes
\nthat people on welfare prefer to be unemployed or badly paid, by choice. When I
\nlast looked, following his article there were over 900 critical comments on the
\nGuardian\u2019s website and in today\u2019s edition there are seven letters which refer
\nto his \u2018bellicose\u2019 language and his social ignorance. In his article
\nDuncan-Smith says \u2018nobody should be able to earn more in benefits than the
\naverage family earns going out to work\u2019 Agreed, writes one correspondent, but a
\nless divisive answer would be to increase the amount that work pays.<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nIn
\nthat connection I have learned from today\u2019s Guardian, that there is something
\ncalled a \u2018zero-hours\u2019 contract which allows employers to escape, apart from the
\nminimum wage, all the normal conditions of employment such as holiday or sick
\npay. At the best workers can expect a monthly rota outlining their potential
\nearnings four weeks in advance, but can end up with zero pay at the end of the
\nweek. They are regularly banned from taking other jobs and have no long term
\nguarantee of employment. The employee is expected to be on-call<\/a>
\nand receive compensation only for hours worked. <\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nApparently
\nthe care industry has shifted almost all staff to zero-hours contracts. It is
\nestimated that there are 300,000 care workers employed on this scheme. Retailers
\nalso use them; out of a staff of 23,000, Sports Direct employ 20,000 on
\nzero-hours contracts. According to the Office for National Statistics nearly
\none in four large companies used zero-hours contracts in 2011, which is double
\nthe number in 2004. The notorious G4S Company is amongst them. So are the
\ncatering facilities at the Tate Art Museums. Shop staff at Buckingham Palace is
\non the same scheme. <\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nIt
\nseems more of a scam than a scheme to me. I wonder how it fits into
\nDuncan-Smith\u2019s philosophy of social justice. I presume it doesn\u2019t. <\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nBryan<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have been reading an article by Iain Duncan-Smith which was printed in the Guardian on Monday. He is the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions in the U.K. government and has designed the new legislation intended to deal with the so called \u2018welfare-culture\u2019. In the article he uses words that emphasise his interest in dividing the good guys (\u2018hard-working families\u2019) from the bad guy\u2019s (\u2018shirkers\u2019). His language is aggressive; he in fact uses that same word with pride (several times he tells the reader how proud he is), picturing himself as a man with a mission. 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