Working Links Leicester 60 Charles Street Leicester Health and Safety? Fire Trap

Working Links Leicester Health and Safety?

 Until today I have not been able to blog freely about Working  Links for fear of Sanction!

I have come to the end of my time at Working Links, I have gained nothing from the experience the service is poor.

The safety of staff and job seekers has been put at risk for many months. Only today did Working Links install the above fire extinguishers.

They are based in a very high up in a old building 60 Charles Street. Moving over to this building last summer job seekers received no induction. To this day I have not been able to locate a fire call point and exit signs are not clear.

I hope these two new fire extinguishers are never needed but if they are I hope they are adequate and no one is ever trapped up there.

If the staff jump first and the job seekers perish will the staff still receive their bonus?

They turned down an employer offering me work experience because his fire extinguishers had service labels that had just expired. At least he has them......

Working Links Leicester the Big Issue / Bell

At working links Leicester Today, busy job searching and suddenly I jumped out of my seat.  Someone had just rung a large bell and the man next to me cheered and clapped.

I have just found working links has used government and European funding to purchase a brass ships bell!

Photograph to follow.

Job seekers like myself must ring the bell when we get a job offer! Yippee! I can't wait for my turn!

This is not a joke it is for real!

I would like to blog a lot more about working links, but the last time I did they banned me from Daily Job Search.

Working Links is funded by the Government and the European Union and Job Centre Plus is a main stakeholder. I have learnt the advisor if they don't like you they can sanction you, meaning you loose Job Seeker allowance for up to six months, if they don't help you to find employment the sanctions are a way they can also ensure they get there much talked about bonuses. I am coming to the end of my experience of Working Links so I won't say anymore.

I imagine Rutland County Council and Oakham Town Council wish they had the same power over people!

Working Links Job Seekers Leicester This Way

Working Links Job Seakers Leiceter This Way

It's all change at working links once again, no appointed adviser. 

Some advisers have once again chosen to go off sick.

When you hear advisor so unhappy it does not give you much motivation to want to work.

I know a couple were of really sick, I wonder if the Working Links days lost to sick is as high Rutland County Council.

Although I guess the threat of redundancy at the council may have helped Mrs Briggs reduce this figure.

Senior  staff tell off staff in front of clients for sitting at desks.

Clients can only sit at desk.

Its one of those American things that does not work too well here in Britain.

The British worker likes their own space at work.

Today a member of staff broke a plastic holder used to display latest jobs.

Working Links sent a man and toolkit to remove and replace the damaged item.

The damaged holder was affixed with double sided sticky fixers.

The replacement was fixed with blue tac and just in time for the visit by the CEO and her suited entourage.

The man who carried out this repair drove two hours from Leeds and I guess the same back.

I could have popped to W H Smith and bought some sticky fixers and completed the task as work experience.

I am told more important visitors arrive tomorrow, I hope nothing is broken before they arrive.

Or Working Links might have to dig deeper into the European fund.

There was nearly a disaster as one of the suits inspected the job board and pulled at the one next to the replacement. Image the fuss if he hand pulled the one affixed with Blue Tac!