Remploy Furniture

[custard]

I believe Remploy is closing it's furniture making business because it's losing too much money. Sad news.

http://furniture.remploy.co.uk/

 

[RogerS]

Unfortunately it has been going on for a long time

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-s ... s-23183211

 

[Baldhead]

Several years ago I visited a Remploy factory where they made wheelchairs, one employee who was deaf/blind sat at his work station where he assembled five components by touch, the factory manager said, "...he never complains, he's never late for work and he's never off sick", sad thing is, I understand that factory closed over a year ago! I wonder if he was successful in finding other employment?

I don't want to get all political but, surely it is cheaper to subsidise these factories than it is to pay unemployment benefit and other benefits associated with disabled claimants?

Baldhead

 

[RogerS]

Not according to the Govt.....She (Maria Miller) went on to say that every Remploy place currently costs £25,000 a year, compared with £3,000 per person under the Access to Work scheme.

 

[Baldhead]

Not according to the Govt.....She (Maria Miller) went on to say that every Remploy place currently costs £25,000 a year, compared with £3,000 per person under the Access to Work scheme.

Doesn't Access to Work just help pay for work place adjustments like fitting hand rails, ramps for wheel chair access etc etc?

Baldhead

 

[RogerS]

Not according to the Govt.....She (Maria Miller) went on to say that every Remploy place currently costs £25,000 a year, compared with £3,000 per person under the Access to Work scheme.

Doesn't Access to Work just help pay for work place adjustments like fitting hand rails, ramps for wheel chair access etc etc?

Baldhead

No it's one of the Coalitions weezes around making the disable go back to work....and while, no doubt, there are skivers who claim that they are disabled when they clearly are not....there are way too many sad tales of the sheer misery that real disabled people have had to go through.

 

[Baldhead]

Roger what I meant was all the benefits genuine disabled unemployed people can claim, which is different to what Maria Miller said in her statement about Access to Work.

I also believe Access to Work was inplace before the coalition government was elected (or not as some would say)

Baldhead

 

[Grahamshed]

Access to work has been around for quite a while. Long before the coalition. As you suggest they pay for alterations or special equipment at work. They also pay a large chunk towards transport to and from work if public transport is not acailable or practical/

 

[thick_mike]

In this bean counting culture where everything has to be accounted for, we sometimes forget to count the non-monetary value of things. Regardless of the difference in cost, the value of having a job, a purpose, making a contribution to society, going home knackered and thinking"I made that"...when do they add those sums up?

With the best will in the world, a very small percentage of he people made redundant from Remploy will be able to compete in today's job market. Many of those people will never work again because it's cheaper.

 

[adzeman]

Not in the mood to go into detail only to say I am with you Mike.

 

[Baldhead]

In this bean counting culture where everything has to be accounted for, we sometimes forget to count the non-monetary value of things. Regardless of the difference in cost, the value of having a job, a purpose, making a contribution to society, going home knackered and thinking"I made that"...when do they add those sums up?

With the best will in the world, a very small percentage of he people made redundant from Remploy will be able to compete in today's job market. Many of those people will never work again because it's cheaper.

Well said.

Baldhead

 

[twothumbs]

Yes. It is all poorly thoiught out by peolpe with little contact with the real world or real people. I seem to think a lot of there work was for the supply of civil service office furniture which change in the mid 80's. I always first blame the managers of any business on sinking problems or where sales performace is poor. It is very rarely the staff. But what do I know....I am only an old retired....except like a lot of peole, here...we do care about others. There was a debate on TV last week...The legacy of the para. games..... obviously didn't spread very far. How many people in Britain today know what the name Remploy was and stood for. Not many I suspect.