Future Jobs?

To whom can I report abuse of the Future Jobs Fund scheme?

• I am on a Future Jobs Fund placement which is coming to the end of its 6 months. My colleagues and I have been overworked, hideously underpaid and badly treated by a large, well respected organisation with no chance of a permanent job from it. These placements are not supposed to replace real jobs. The employer in question is taking on huge work contracts to increase profits, and to deal with the extra workload they employing young people to do the same jobs as staff earning at least twice the wages, only to replace them after 6 months, and receiving government grants for the trouble! As a result of this, I decided to look up the terms of the FJF programme online. My current employer is in violation of so many of these I don't even know where to begin. I have been googling away and yet still cannot find anyone taking responsibility for the scheme! To whom can I complain? Do I have any rights? The company has no union working on behalf of its workers. Any advice much appreciated....

• Answer:

  Every FJF contract is headed up by a lead accountable body, in some instances the loal council in others other large public sector bodies who have the responisiblty to ensure FJF conditions are met. As you won't be aware of who is the lead accountable body for your job, the best thing to do is take your concerns to your job centre and they will advise the correct people.