It has been over a year since The Occupied Times first invited Boycott Workfare to spread the word with an article in print. At the time, few people knew what workfare was, or why it mattered. Since then the campaign against workfare has come a very long way. It continues to […]

Know your rights – Work Programme You do not not have to sign any provider documents! Find out if your “work experience” is mandatory or not. Fact: Not all ‘work experience’ on the Work Programme is mandatory. Fact: The only personal data you need to share with a Work Programme provider (such […]

The New Year had scarcely begun before politicians of all parties were bickering over who could provide the toughest clinical assessment of those claiming jobseekers. Their proposed treatment: welfare cuts and a massive dose of workfare. What does this have to do with the Occupy movement? Everything. Workfare is another […]