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WorkDirections complaints

Can some also tell em why Im being told that if you wish to make a compalint about this company as a client (When in afact its them you are complaining about)That you have to do it via them.(Trust me me they dont like that)
Why is there nothing in place to protect the client via JobCentre,Surely.they have to protect the clients who they send to a company like this.
After all they Work Directions will no way tell you your rights as a client.
They dont even tell you what you are legally intitled to via PATHWAY to Work Or NEW DEAL.

Down with this sort of thing - benefit claimants, welfare queens etc.

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Down with this sort of thing - Providers, FND, welfare reform, work for your benefit

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A4e arguments

Note 23/3 - This discussion was moved from here for reasons that should be obvious.

Your poor woman, having experienced 13 -weeks of torture at A4E, you have my sympathy. It can'be easy working for a notorious outfit like A4E.
I would just like to clarify one point: A4e do NOT povide skills and training to New Deal clients. I have no idea where this outraegous claim has come from. I'm sure this myth has only fuelled the anatagonism towards A4E by many ex-clients.