Homework Service
The Homeworking Service provides advice, information and support
to people who are looking for homework and people who are working
at home on:
- Welfare benefits
- Employment rights
- National minimum wage
- Holiday pay
- Sick pay
- Self employment
- Child care
- Homeworking scams
- Training opportunities
We will make home visits on request. Our Homeworking Officer
speaks Urdu and Punjabi as well as English.
Homeworking Directory
The Directory contains comprehensive advice and infomation
on:
- Homeworking - how to look for homework
- Self employment
- Employment rights for homework
- Companies who use homework
- Training and general information
A copy of the Directory can be sent to the people of the Borough
on request.
Homeworking scams
Hundreds of people are losing money
to bogus homeworking schemes in their search for work to do at
home. Scams can be an attractive option as they appear to have all
the answers for the many seeking work to do at home.
People who are looking for work
usually respond to adverts placed in newspapers, newsagents, post
offices, mail shots or attached to lamp-posts. Various types of
work are on offer including packing, envelope stuffing, typing, kit
construction, craftwork, marketing and teleworking. Usually they
are asked to pay a registration fee in return for work and in the
vast majority of cases no one is ever employed by the company and
there was never any likelihood of gaining work.
A scam is a scheme, which has been
established with the primary aim of generating income from
registration fees. No genuine employment exists nor any marketable
product. There are a number of these type of schemes
including:-
- Directory: There are no national books with
lists of genuine companies
- Recruitment: These scams get lists of names
and addresses to sell on.
- Kit making: No matter how well you make it, it
will never be good enough
- Marketing: The big money is made before you
even join
- Teleworking: Usually done by people who
already work for a company
- Proofreading: These adverts are selling an
expensive course, from which you will not find a job.
Beware of adverts offering homeworking jobs, no matter how
professional the advertisement or well respected the newspaper
printing the advertisement.
Often people looking for homework
assume there is a list of companies, which have genuine employers,
in fact no such list exists except in Rochdale for local people.
Long, well-written advertisements in respectable newspapers
offering a homeworking employment guide are still scams. You will
be asked to pay £25 for a small, paperback book that contains lists
of companies, some genuine information and our telephone number. We
do not have any connection with this book, and do not recommend it
to people seeking homework.