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"The benefits system is also too inflexible to deal with short term jobs."
Valid point, but that's the challenge: to make it easier for the unemployed to take on such work and then sign back on once it's finished. I'm not advocating that people with families, mortgages, etc. are press-ganged into such jobs, but there is a transient domestic working force for whom such work is suited - students for instance.
The_Kindness_of_Trees-
Yep I think we agree there.
If such work had flexible times/end to end sequencing (eg one month potatoes, then you're on to apples or whatever) and somewhat predictable pay, combined with better working tax credits/dole flexibility it would suit more people.
But if you ask "the market to sort it" then you get this...
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"The benefits system is also too inflexible to deal with short term jobs."
Valid point, but that's the challenge: to make it easier for the unemployed to take on such work and then sign back on once it's finished. I'm not advocating that people with families, mortgages, etc. are press-ganged into such jobs, but there is a transient domestic working force for whom such work is suited - students for instance.
Universal basic income would solve this.
JWestland
Dammit
I am not sure...
An unsteady income is unsuitable for many, it only works if you have a very low rent / no kids / or a high income partner who can do school runs.
The benefits system is also too inflexible to deal with short term jobs.
I've done all sorts of low wages temp jobs when I was 16-18 during school holidays...no use now, no contract, no security.