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A PROTEST IS to be held outside the offices of Fás today calling on the government to reverse it’s decision to allow people remain longer on a JobBridge internship.
Last month Minister for Social Protection Joan Burton announced a number of changes to the programme including a change that allowed interns stay on an individual placement for 18 months as opposed to nine previously. The number of internships allowed also increased from two to three but the maximum time allowed on the scheme in total remained at 18 months.
Today’s protest is being jointly organised by a number of unions including ICTU Youth, the USI, UNITE Youth as well as the ScamBridge.ie campaign.
Socialist MEP Paul Murphy is behind the ScamBridge.ie website which campaigns for the scheme to be phased out and says that the latest announcement further normalises people working for free:
The 18 months we’re particularly opposed to because the idea that they really are internships, that people are learning new skills for 18 months, is patently ridiculous for the government to stand over. In affect it’s a doubling the amount of exploitation.
Murphy says that for the moment the campaign is pushing for the burden to moved from interns to employers by making it compulsory that companies explain why they did not take on an intern on a full-time basis after the completion of an internship.
Derek Keenan of ICTU Youth says that the extension of internships was brought in specifically for employers. “Chiefly they’ve extended it because employers have lobbied through the Indecon report. They were aspects of the scheme that could be improved and surprise surprise they were insisting that it should be extended to 12 months and beyond.”
The government has promised to increase monitoring of individual internships but neither Keenan nor Murphy believe the manpower is in place to so.
“All the jobs are supposed to monitored already before they go on the site but all you have to do is take a look at the site on any given day during the week to see that some jobs aren’t really internships,” said Murphy.
The protest is to take place at 3pm at the Fás Offices on D’Olier St. in Dublin.
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*sigh*
*hangs up mankini*
What’s Leo doing over in England he should be fixing the health service.
Now, now. In this new pro-LGBTIKAA era gay jokes are illegal.
Over shoulder bo##ix holder
That photo must have been taken on a very cold day.
A speedo ban on holiday resorts should be next!!
Why because mens genitalia offend you , what about camel toe ? .
I never mentioned men’s anything…..
Speedos are synonymous with mens genitalia that’s why .
You must like your speedos Deco ?
Touched a nerve there, Deco? O_o
I look fabulous in them .
Ugh, can’t be unseen.
Agree Yvonne.. No fella could look good in a mankini.. It must have been invented by one very pissed off feminazi..
Or maybe a blind man..
You haven’t seen Mr Shalakalananaka so.
Hairy six-pack, wrinkly legs, saggy arse, leopard print mankini… the other auld ones do be throwing themselves at him. He could be a model.
Mrs
Stop that oul talk. You are turning me on..
They should be the compulsory uniform for community service!
The idea is to punish the offender not any poor soul who happens to see them.
Imagine my dear sweet old granny walking past as pasty, pimple arsed, glue enthusiasts, Rasher and Johno bend over to pick up discarded Tayto bags wearing mankinis.
I’m dying laughing at that Ron. XD
A Mankini.
Look at it. Why?
A wardrobe must have. Paired with a top hat & cane, perfect for any occasion.
thats is what i wore to my uncles funeral coincidentaly
If I ever meet someone wearing this in public I will kick his teeth out his arse***e.
You are secretly excited by that picture, admit it .
John’s gone all quiet now ..
Remember those anger management classes the judge ordered you to go on John? Good.. now, breath in.. hold it… breath out…. good, and again… breath in… and hold… good… and out.
Ah come on now john your not really going to do that. Sit down there now and relax. Good lad.
John,no you won’t!
I like you, do you like me?
Oh come on how could you not beat the living s***e out of him.
By minding your one f…..g business
Someone wears that in public makes it my f*****g business. You want your kids looking at that is your business.
I take it then that you don’t take your kids to the swimming pool or the beach in case they see some one in swimwear. In any case why are your kids out that late when a stage night is taking place?
You have a funny idea of swimwear. Each to their own.
Newquay – it’s like the Fundoran of the UK
Irish/Donegal woman living in Newquay and this is exactly how I describe Newquay to people at home. Bundoran on steroids but really glad I don’t have to see the sea of mankinis every Saturday/Sunday mornings anymore.
Curious to know if rather than a mankini was a model in bikini …not revolting I guess!
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