Well i dunno if it's the same for you.

It's just in denmark we sort of have rules and minimum wages. Only the minimum wages are usually based on your qualifications and not the job.

Not only that, but employers don't employ people who are over-qualified because they need loyal people. And they know very well that many over qualified people will stay at the job just till they find a more challenging job. So yea.
But I don't think a newly graduate should have over-qualification problems o.o At least I don't think so.

That does sound like a pretty crappy system.

WoF: You've clearly never been unemployed. Even the poorest, least educated people will refuse a job that they consider 'beneath' them. Hell, I had massive arguments with the employment counsellor who kept trying to push me to apply for truck driving jobs.

The other issue is that long term unemployment is very unattractive to prospective employers. At least this gives people something to write on their resumes and, if it's a well designed system, new skills and the potential to make contact and find a job on their own.

When I've been unemployed, I've never had the slightest urge to place myself on the dole.

In fact, I usually take a holiday :D

Alcar...

In Britain's economic climate you don't really have a choice anymore, if someone offers you a job you sure as hell snap it up... regardless whether you think it's beneath you or not. Money's money at the end of the day.

EDIT:Ditto, I don't like the thought of going on the dole and my parents are forever urging me to get on it whenever I do "lose" my job. I prefer to look for a job without the fallback of easy money from the Gov. It's makes the search all the more urgent whenever your funds start to run dry.

I don't like to lower the standard of conversation, but isn't this what the Nazis used to do?

No. This isn't compulsory. This is saying that the government is willing to give you some money while you are without a proper job, but you are still going to have to do some kind of work for it. You can always decline it and make nothing. Also, I would be willing to bet there would be a ton of exemptions built into the system, like being on unemployment for a certain amount of time, being a student, etc...

It's for NEETs, of course students won't factor into it.

That's just one example. I'm sure that people with medical issues would be exempt, too. Hell, by the time it got passed there would probably be so many ways to get out of doing it that it would be completely ineffectual anyway.

OK. *Leaves*

You mean like that pirating law we have?

Something like that. Or, more accurately, like the current unemployment laws.