Rudd’s wife makes fortune from workless Britons


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  July 08  2013  (5:19am)


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Kevin Rudd’s wife is making a motza from the British policies Rudd deplores:




In a return lodged last December for her international job placement agency Ingeus UK, [Therese] Rein, one of seven directors, states that the country in which she is usually resident is the United Kingdom. Clearly, unlike her spouse, Rein does not fear life under Tory policies.

Last week as justification for his backflip on the ALP leadership Rudd warned of the need to stop Tony Abbott because “his alternative economic policy is to copy the British Conservatives—launch a national slash-and-burn austerity drive and drive the economy into recession as happened in Britain"…

Well every cloud has a silver lining, especially if, like Rein, you’re in the welfare-to-work industry in Britain. For while Rudd might rail against the evils of “Cameronite” policies, a company ultimately 50 per cent owned by Rein’s Australian company Ingeus has bagged contracts worth $1.2 billion under the Tories’ “Work Program”. The policy is intended to secure jobs for the long-term unemployed and other disadvantaged groups.

 

That is a staggering amount of money, and British Labour is wondering what Britons are actually getting for it:





THERESE Rein faces multi-million-dollar contractual problems with the British government after her jobseeker company, Ingeus, failed to deliver on promises to get sufficient numbers of long-term unemployed back to work.

Ingeus ...  faces having some of the lucrative contracts axed before the end of the year…

Opposition works spokesman Liam Byrne noted that, in many parts of the country, taking part in the scheme was indeed “worse than doing nothing"…

Its reputation has been tarnished, especially among the poorest and most disadvantaged, after it coerced some unemployed people to work unpaid for 30 hours a week for up to six months in charity shops and big-name retail outlets.

This “workfare plan”, detailed in Ingeus’s tender document, is mandatory for the claimants to maintain their pound stg. 71.70 a week jobs benefit.. . Ingeus told The Australian “all work experience is voluntary, with the duration determined by the individual"…

Joanna Long, a member of the lobby group Boycott Workfare, told The Australian that the unemployed had no real alternative but to work for free with no job at the end of the period.

“It is deeply concerning someone so closely connected to the Australian Labor Party is helping to erode labour rights in the UK,” Ms Long said…

The latest figures, released last month by the Department of Work and Pensions, underscore a poor performance, dramatically below the government’s target that Ingeus and others would find work for 30 per cent of applicants, which was a minimum figure the government expected would be “significantly exceeded”.

Instead 130,000 of the 1.2 million people who joined the Work Program since June 2011—13.4 per cent—have found employment, a figure well below that which the government believed would have found work without any intervention at all.
 

red baron wrote on Jul 31^st, 2013 at 9:35am:


Do you actually have any evidence linking Therese Rein to any wrong doing Red???

Red is just jealous that someone as frumpy looking as Therese is a lot smarter than he is ... 

tell me Red how do you feel about police sitting around using speed cameras all day instead of stopping real crime? Profiting from the misfortune of others aren't they?

Is Inguese owned by Therese Rein?

Did Inguese make 200 million dollars profits out  of the work programme?

Did Inguese place young people to work for the dole full time in various positions including in their own offices?

Were the young people coerced into doing this under threat of losing their dole payments?

Did Supermarkets in the U.K. sack permanent staff because they could get recruits from Inuese to work there for nothing under so called 'work experience when in fact they were worked full time and receive 'the dole' as their payment, only to get kicked out when the their time ran out?

Is the Pope a catholic?

John Smith wrote on Jul 31^st, 2013 at 9:51am:



I'm not sure if that's better or worse than Tracy Grimshaw   

Yesterday, A4E, the second-largest manager of the schemes, was exposed as using people on the program to work unpaid in its own offices. Four people in the group have been arrested on charges of fraud, and the firm’s head, Emma Harrison, has stepped down from her position as chair of the firm. She also had a role as the government’s “family tsar”.

The furore over the program erupted this week after a focus on the involvement of Tesco, with accusations that it was using the scheme as a substitute for actual employment. Crucial to this process was the use of sanction — the program focused on youth is meant to be voluntary, with those on benefits allowed to back out of it within the first week.

Nothing on Ms Reins company though.

I guess there is the hope that if you throw enough mud some will eventually stick.

red baron wrote on Jul 31^st, 2013 at 12:23pm:


Her company wasnt caught in anything, your own opening post says so.