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Work Placement programme.

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  • 31-07-2010 2:33pm
    #1
    kilburn
    Registered Users Posts: 3,912 ✭✭✭


    Has anyone here done one of these or know anyone doing one?
    Considering it but seems like a bit of a swizz !


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    zig
    Registered Users Posts: 1,206 ✭✭✭zig


    Its an absolute scam and grossly unfair on young people who cant get their full dole. Its also reducing employment in Ireland as companies are taking down real jobs on the fas site and replacing them with WPPs.
    These arent getting enough coverage if you ask me. The acceptance of them is a joke.


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    Kess73
    Registered Users Posts: 25,560 ✭✭✭✭Kess73


    Total con. Basically you get to work for up to nine months for free, and there is no guarantee that you get to keep your dole if you accept one as it is on a case by case basis.

    If the employers even paid people the same as the dole fpr a WPP, then people would jump at the WPPs as at least they would be doing something with their time.


    Makes me laugh when I see people being sought for anything from retail work to legal work on WPPs and that they are expected to work full weeks for nothing to the same standards as those there being paid full wages, and with no guarantee of a full time paid job afterwards.


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    zig
    Registered Users Posts: 1,206 ✭✭✭zig


    I saw one for canteen cleaning once, lol


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    ninty9er
    Registered Users Posts: 9,366 ✭✭✭ninty9er


    You can't put a price on experience

    Cue random for everything else there's MasterCard comment.


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