Slán Job bridge

Gatling · 18-10-2016 4:18pm #1

Leo vladkar announced that applications for job bridge will close on Friday .
Signaling an end to the much hyped and much abused scheme .

http://www.rte.ie/news/2016/1018/825064-jobbridge-varadkar/

Elliott S · 18-10-2016 4:19pm

Good riddance. But didn't some other sort of scheme replace it?

18-10-2016 4:23pm

There goes my dream of being an Associate Retail Engineer(intern) for a multinational conglomerate. Or a shelf stocker in Tesco as its otherwise known.

The Raptor · 18-10-2016 4:25pm

5 years too late. It was OK for the first year but it was abused. I or somebody else lost out on jobs because of this scheme. At least the current fools on jobbridge might be kept on now that they can't be replaced.

mailforkev · 18-10-2016 4:26pm

Good, although I'm sure many people did benefit from it, nothing increases society's race to the bottom like a culture where people work for peanuts or internships are unpaid.

Work has a value and should always be rewarded as such.

Gatling · 18-10-2016 4:27pm

Expect profit warnings from retailers now they will have to pay for several thousand extra employees across the sector

Tommy Kelly · 18-10-2016 4:29pm

Get rid of the CE Schemes now. I'm currently working for Galway County Council via a CE Scheme and all I'm or we as in us on the scheme are doing is all the work for the full time lads who are on around 3 times as much as we are per week.

Gatling · 18-10-2016 4:31pm

Tommy Kelly wrote: »

Get rid of the CE Schemes now. I'm currently working for Galway County Council via a CE Scheme and all I'm or we as in us on the scheme are doing is all the work for the full time lads who are on around 3 times as much as we are per week.

CE scheme's tend to be fairly welcomed by some ,I know that several scheme's have waiting lists to get on to ,

Tombi! · 18-10-2016 4:31pm

People definitely did benefit from it.
People also definitely did abuse it.

I wouldn't mind something like a part time option paid by the DSP and the business pays the rest. Say you get 188 euro from the DSP then you still get paid that by the DSP but the business pays the rest up to at least minimum wage and slowly that trickles down so the business pays fully after probation period of say two months.

I still think that the original idea from what it spawned from, the graduate work placements are down to the fact colleges here tend to just teach you and say good luck. There should be a lot more work placements on college courses. And a lot less sandwich artists that take nine months of "training" as a fecking intern.

Tombi! · 18-10-2016 4:33pm

Tommy Kelly wrote: »

Get rid of the CE Schemes now. I'm currently working for Galway County Council via a CE Scheme and all I'm or we as in us on the scheme are doing is all the work for the full time lads who are on around 3 times as much as we are per week.

CE Schemes, depending on the place are actually very good. I've met more people who swear by them then those that don't.
I believe you. But I'd wager you are in the minority in this case. It's 19.5 hours a week and you get more than minimum wage if you were working that. I think it's 208 or something you're on. which is 10.5 and that's after tax.
In your case go talk to whoever the CE supervisor is if you feel you're being taken advantage of.
Word of warning, though. You are meant to be doing the same work (more or less) of fulltime staff. You're part time. You're not meant to be working the same hours, though.

Tommy Kelly · 18-10-2016 4:44pm

Tombi! wrote: »

CE Schemes, depending on the place are actually very good. I've met more people who swear by them then those that don't.
I believe you. But I'd wager you are in the minority in this case. It's 19.5 hours a week and you get more than minimum wage if you were working that. I think it's 208 or something you're on. which is 10.5 and that's after tax.
In your case go talk to whoever the CE supervisor is if you feel you're being taken advantage of.
Word of warning, though. You are meant to be doing the same work (more or less) of fulltime staff. You're part time. You're not meant to be working the same hours, though.

We work week on week off. 39 or so hours per week. When it comes to us doing the same work as the full time staff I'd have no bother in doing the same amount of work as they do. Problem us we're basically doing all of the work, full stop. Many of us have 6 weeks plus of extra days worked up on top of our annual holidays (10 & 1/2 days) as a result of being asked to come in on our week off. If we didn't there'd be nothing at all done in the area.

Tombi! · 18-10-2016 4:46pm

If you have days worked up then you need to make use of them before your contract runs out or else say "no" when you're asked to come in on your day off. Your contract is a contract. You willingly are going in outside hours stated by your contract. You can't get fired for not doing extra hours.

messinkiapina · 18-10-2016 5:38pm

I appreciate and understand why people hate JobBridge (and largely agree with them) but I'm a recent graduate who is struggling to get any bites at the moment and would jump at a JobBridge internship just to get enough experience that might get me a proper job.

Anyone know when the new scheme is likely to kick off. Are we talking months or years?

osarusan · 18-10-2016 6:15pm

Good.

It was a scheme that could have been very useful and productive, if it had been run properly. I am sure that there are some people who benefited from it, but it was abused by employers in a big way.

A sure sign of just how f**ked things had become was the point when the Report function was removed from the website.

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