Firm in a Liga its own over cash-for-places farce
Friday 08 February 2013
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EmailA scottish regeneration agency boss described today how England apprenticeships provider Liga UK offered it a £1,500 bung to downgrade an advertised job at the NGO into a training position.
Scottish Urban Regeneration Forum (Surf) chief executive Andy Milne told The Herald newspaper: "Here is a private company, being paid from your and my taxes by the UK government to help unemployed people into jobs.
"They are offering Surf a £1,500 inducement to scrap our already advertised and properly paid real job so that they can chalk up an apprentice placement 'success' and claim their finder's fee."
Mr Milne said Surf did not accept the offer but questioned how many firms have downgraded real job vacancies into training placements in return for cash payments.
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