Homework Service
Our Homeworking Service provides advice, information and support
if you are looking for homework or are already working at
home. We can advise on:
- Welfare benefits
- Employment rights
- National minimum wage
- Holiday pay
- Sick pay
- Self employment
- Child care
- Homeworking scams
- Training opportunities
Our Homeworking Officer speaks Urdu, Punjabi and English and
will make home visits on request.
Homeworking Directory
The Directory contains comprehensive advice and information
on:
- Homeworking - how to look for homework
- Self employment
- Employment rights for homework
- Companies who use homework
- Training and general information
- Please contact us for a copy or download one.
Homeworking
Directory 2010 (316kb pdf file)
Homeworking scams
Hundreds of people are losing money to bogus homeworking schemes
in their search for work to do at home. Scams can seem to be an
attractive option as they appear to have all the answers if you are
looking for 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 you 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.
These scams are based around schemes that have 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 types 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 up to £25 for a small, paperback book that contains
lists of companies, some genuine information and our telephone
number. Rochdale Borough Council does not have any connection with
this book, and does not recommend it to people seeking
homework.
For more information on homeworking contact us using the details
on this page.