World Watching

Hmm.. The illustrious Jobcentre Plus has sunk to a new low… by pushing an advertisment for someone to host a pornographic TV show.

The successful candidate, who must be over 18, will be required to work “semi nude” and talk dirty to strangers. They will work three days a week from 9pm till 5am, and earn up to £220 per shift.

The advert for the London-based position of Adult TV Channel Presenter on the Jobcentre Plus website states: “Duties involve explicit sexual dialogue which may cause embarrassment to some.

“The successful applicant (will be) required to be semi-nude. Duties will involve working on a well-known adult TV channel… Must have good spoken communication skills as will be taking calls from the general public live on air.”

Revolver Models, which placed the ad, said all applications had to go through the Jobcentre.

Shocked jobseeker Sophie Randall-Price, 25, said: “I’m broad-minded, but I couldn’t believe they want us to apply for such a sleazy job.

“I’m willing to work hard, but not to whip off my top and talk dirty to a bunch of weirdos in the middle of the night on national TV.”

The Department for Work and Pensions said: “The Jobcentre Plus has a duty to advertise any legal job.”

Unfotunately what the illustrious DWP fail to mention is that they can compel a jobseeker to apply for a job or risk losing their benefits. I wonder how long before a court case is heard in regard to some hapless jobseeker being ordered to apply for a job as a porn star?

Growing Job Queues

The Government is braced for a bout of pre-Budget bad news, with new unemployment figures expected to show another huge increase in the number of people out of work.

Latest jobless figures will be published by the Office for National Statistics, just hours before Chancellor Alistair Darling stands up in the Commons to outline his financial package.

Analysts have predicted that the number of people claiming jobseeker’s allowance jumped by over 120,000 in March following a massive increase of 138,000 in the so-called claimant count in February.

Total unemployment, including those not eligible for benefits, passed the two million mark last month for the first time in 12 years and is expected to continue rising for the rest of the year. Business groups and unions now expect the wider measure of unemployment to reach at least three million next year because of the effects of the recession.

The TUC’s general secretary, Mr Barber said: “I want to see the Government show the same determination in protecting working people from the worst of the recession as it has in protecting banks from the greedy excesses of their bosses.”

I think we would all like to see the government protecting the working people Mr Barber, But its not just the recession they need protecting from.. its the Banks and from the very government as well.