Wednesday, 10 August 2011

Next to nothing?

One wonders what has so disaffected the youth of today that leads them to view high street stores with such contempt as seen in recent days.

Then we discover that Next, in Blackpool, in common with other branches around the country are offering the youth opportunities such as Apprentice Stockroom Assistants (Delivery/Stockroom Department). These are temporary positions, and are limited to 24 part-time hours a week. Fine so far as it goes. However, it is scandolous that this multi-million pound company is paying a mere £2.50 an hour to these young people, clearly using this scheme to exploit the youth as a source of cheap labour.

It seems we are sowing what we reap.