The point is, they are closing 27 loss making Remploy factories.. They made a combined loss of £68.3m last year. In context that's just over £2.5 m per factory a year.
I wonder how many businesses in the private sector could withstand this sort of loss in one years trading?
Perhaps the government have looked at the situation and have realised it's cheaper to have these people sit at home doing nothing, than paying them to make such losses?
Talked about this tonight in our house as there is a remploy near me in bolton, what p****d me off is a while back some conservative said "we need to get them proper jobs"
The operative word in your statement Libby, is "Proper Jobs." Not heavily subsidised ones, making such huge losses.
Again I find myself in agreement with Joe.
maybe they should subside them in normal workplaces. That would stop them feeling like they are somehow 'different'.
Whilst I have every sympathy for these disabled people (my partner is disabled too) I do feel we need a rethink about their role in any workplace. I'm sure many of them could be employed in the Jobcentre plus. Let's get the able people there off their ar**s and out doing a real job. A person in a wheelchair can sit behind a desk and operate a computer.
