Government urged to investigate Capita's recruitment and training

The Government has been urged to investigate Capita and FDM Group’s training schemes which demanded jobseekers carried out months of unpaid work before they could obtain salaried work.

The Guardian are reporting that Frank Field, the Labour MP and Chair of the parliamentary work and pensions committee, has written to Business Secretary asking if he would “consider a public inquiry into the extent and consequences” of the practice and if further protection for workers was required.

“My main concern here is around how the practice is, in effect, trapping vulnerable workers..."

"...in a particular arrangement over an extended period of time regardless of whether they need to leave the scheme for family, health or professional reasons,” he wrote.