MFillingham – Call handling and possible computer work as you have said. Other than that, I can’t think of any other legit work, paying the minimum wage. If they plan on paying the minimum wage that is! Edit – Anyone remember Remploy the government got rid of, for disabled people who were able to do a bit and were proud to do so.
I used to have a TUC seat on the Manpower Services Committee For The Employment For Disabled People In Lanarkshire, where a Remploy manager was also on the committee and invited us all to visit his Remploy factory and we were all very impressed by the high quality of clothes they made (at a slower rate than a normal factory) for both the Army and Police (the heavy jumpers) and also cardigans for Marks & Spencer. They were paid at a higher hourly wage than I was getting in the Civil Service, but the Tories shut them all down claiming it was better for people to work in non disabled factories.
When in fact they just wanted to save money on a project which was originally set up after the war for ex service men who were left with a disability and could not get jobs in normal industry.
There was one beautiful looking young girl who did not look to have a disability but in fact had suffered from epilepsy, who had left Remploy to go into a normal clothing factory, but the extra pressure to turn out more, caused her to have more seizures and she had to return to sheltered work of Remploy. But the Tories don’t care about thing’s like that, no only on saving money for the already rich and they then preach that they are trying to help the disabled back into work.
Another thing they had at that time (late 80s, early 90s), which was an excellent idea, was sponsored jobs, if I started a job and could only do 80% of what my colleagues were producing then the employer paid me the 80% and a sponsor paid me the other 20% to make my wages up. Sadly that was scrapped as well.