Sickness beneficiaries are on the chopping block.

[mashman]

BUT... Social Development Minister Paula Bennett said. "There's no penalty if people can't find work, the requirement is to genuinely look for a job, but you won't find one if you're not looking."

GENIUS

[marie_speeds]

BUT... Social Development Minister Paula Bennett said. "There's no penalty if people can't find work, the requirement is to genuinely look for a job, but you won't find one if you're not looking."

GENIUS

A friend of mine is a sickness beneficiary.....he gets paid to stay home and drink all day because he is an alcoholic

[Swoop]

he gets paid to stay home and drink all day because he is an alcoholic

So, he's in the navy?

[Grasshopperus]

Sickness beneficiaries are on the chopping block.

That'll never sell; their meat is all diseased.

[avgas]

Wait - you don't have to work if your sick?
Fuck why have I been worried all these years?

Gonna go get me some Ebola...

[Oscar]

BUT... Social Development Minister Paula Bennett said. "There's no penalty if people can't find work, the requirement is to genuinely look for a job, but you won't find one if you're not looking."

GENIUS

What's wrong with:

Sickness beneficiaries found to be fit for work will be obligated to look for a job from today onward.

Makes perfect sense to me.

[mashman]

Makes perfect sense to me.

Nothing wrong with it at all, and you're right, it does make perfect sense. Perhaps they should have told sickness beneficiaries sooner, i'm sure they would have sprant out and started looking for jobs instead of being on the sick for extended periods of time

[Oscar]

Nothing wrong with it at all, and you're right, it does make perfect sense. Perhaps they should have told sickness beneficiaries sooner, i'm sure they would have sprant out and started looking for jobs instead of being on the sick for extended periods of time

We're not talking about the sick ones.

Various governments having been using sickness benefits to disquise long term unemployment. If you aren't sick, and aren't working you should be on the dole.

[mashman]

We're not talking about the sick ones.

Various governments having been using sickness benefits to disquise long term unemployment. If you aren't sick, and aren't working you should be on the dole.

All True. I'm sure those pretending to be sick will suddenly change their minds and fall over themselves to get back into the workplace.

[JimO]

our local court news is usually full of sickness beneficiaries

[oneofsix]

Love the thread title Got this mental picture of all these sick people, coughing and sneezing whilst lining up for the chopping block, hope the executioner has a bio-hazard suit.

[jasonu]

BUT... Social Development Minister Paula Bennett said. "There's no penalty if people can't find work, the requirement is to genuinely look for a job, but you won't find one if you're not looking."

GENIUS

Sounds fair to me.