Sorry guys but i don't see a problem with this, its still very very tough out there with nearly 3 million unemployed. There are hundreds of people going for each job that comes up, many never getting any replies for each job they apply for. He has already applied for a position a this store and got no where now he's being given that chance to prove him self and shine. Loads of stores say there creating positions for christmas, even if he applies for a job at another stores he can at least say that he is working for tesco doing ??? this will put him further up the line ahead of other people who have done nothing.
A wouldn't normally get involved in a discussion like this as i am new to this site and still finding my way but i have been unemployed for 18 months and im pretty angry at the way the government handles unemployment.
A dont know your employment status mate but a can tell you that when you have worked all your life and never experienced being unemployed, the last thing you want is to be put into corporate slave labour, make no mistake, thats what it is.
These companies turn over millions in profit, this is simply another feather in the cap for business titans to bleed more out the common man!
A have no problem with people who want to volunteer for these schemes if they think it will help but why should they be enforced into doing it?
If you want me to work for your company then you pay me for my skills and commitment and in return il graft my arse off, if you enforce it and dangle a carrot promising a better chance of future employment then you are taking the piss..
I also done a YTS scheme when i left school and i learned new skills, mostly on how to roll a joint properly, how to spend my mum and dads high tax bill on paying wages to lazy instructors being paid to drink tea all day, i didn't have any sense of pride, i got the sense that the people at the top couldn't do their job properly in generating jobs but they also done a great job of passing the blame to us and branding us lazy and work shy.
That was back in the 80s under the last Tory government, that was when Thatcher wiped out all industry promising that the new retail future would be Britain's future.
Here we are now in 2011 and that retail future is getting free slave labour again..
I have sympathy for the original posters son, nobody gets motivated by enforcement, they get depressed as they realise that our country is on its arse through no fault of theirs..
Since i was made unemployed after a factory closure the social have done "nothing" to help me except treat me like a bit of shit, the government has done nothing except pass me from one state funded jobclub to the next who tell me nothing i don't a;ready know.
Maybe it would have been a better idea to use the millions wasted on these pointless schemes and put it into generating business..
A wouldn't have believed how bad it is if i hadn't lost my job, i even mumbled to myself that the unemployed were lazy, they are not lazy, they are confused at why they are being forced to work for nothing, would you do it?
A don't want to sound rude pal so please dont take my post the wrong way, i am just very angry at the shit end of the stick that guys like me and the OP's son are getting, most unemployed want to work, but not for nothing, that's called communism..