Post by Mitch on Oct 1, 2004 12:55:28 GMT
coming soon hey michele - keep diggin on that one 
Check this out from:
National Group on Homeworking - www.homeworking.gn.apc.org
"In the front rooms, kitches and bedrooms of the UK there is a hidden army of essential workers.
They are arguably the least protected workers within our workforce"
www.homeworking.gn.apc.org/pubs/lfw.html#part2
Looking for Homework - What to AVOID
Having decided, for whatever reason, that you want to look for work to do at home, you may have gathered that finding genuine homework can be difficult and time consuming. It may be tempting to reply to advertisements for homework that you see in the press or in shop windows. A typical advertisement might look like this:
Recruitment Schemes
Advertisements for recruitment schemes are often found in newsagents and Post Offices. The advertisement will ask you to send off a stamped addressed envelope (SAE) for more details. In return you will receive a request for a registration fee, to deter time wasters or to cover administration costs, typically £15.00. Once you have sent the fee, you will receive instructions to place adverts, like the one that you replied to, in other shop windows, often using your own address for replies. You will then have to mail out the SAE’s sent in response to your adverts, containing a letter from the scheme organiser requesting a fee from other potential homeworkers. The scheme organiser will pay you about 30p per enquiry that you forward onto them. This means that at least 50 people would have to send £15.00 to the scheme organiser before you even earned back your initial fee.
This is a typical example of a bogus homeworking scheme in that there is no product to be made and the only way that you can make any money is by becoming involved in the scheme yourself. NGH would always advise that you never send money to a recruitment scheme.
Envelope Addressing
Like the recruitment scheme you will be asked to send a fee. You will be expected to address envelopes, by hand, using address lists provided (these may be copies of pages from telephone directories). This work is often rejected for failing quality standards which are very difficult, if not impossible, to meet. In these cases you will not get paid and won’t be able to get a refund on your initial outlay.
Other Misleading Homeworking Schemes
There are a number of other misleading homeworking schemes being advertised in both the local and national press and in shop windows all over the UK. Most common are directory schemes and kit schemes.
Directory Schemes
These ask you to send a fee (usually £15) in return for a list of companies offering work to Homeworkers. You are encouraged to believe that the companies are reputable and are offering genuine work. What you actually receive for your money is just a list of photocopied sheets, or a booklet of names, addresses or adverts for homework, each asking for a registration fee of anywhere between £10 and £200. To our knowledge there is no such thing as a directory of companies offering genuine homeworking opportunities.
Kit Schemes
These are schemes designed to attract people who enjoy making things and often have an ‘arts & crafts’ emphasis, such as making lampshades or hand painting pictures, wall plaques or miniature clay cottages. You are invited to send money to a company in return for a kit. The kit is supposed to contain the necessary materials from which you can make a product which the company say they will buy from you once completed. When the kit arrives it may have good materials in it, but no instructions on how to assemble the item, or it might contain inadequate or insufficient materials with which to make the product. Either way it makes little difference because, whatever you send back to the company, the item is likely to be rejected on the basis that you have failed their quality standards and you will not be paid.
Again you can not get a refund on your initial outlay, because you have used the kit.
Many of these schemes can appear genuine. Their literature can look very professional and the rates of pay on offer can be very tempting. However, as with trying to find other kinds of work, you should never have to pay to get homework. If a company is asking you for money up-front for homework, NGH would always advise you never to send any money and have nothing to do with this type of scheme.
Check this out from:
National Group on Homeworking - www.homeworking.gn.apc.org
"In the front rooms, kitches and bedrooms of the UK there is a hidden army of essential workers.
They are arguably the least protected workers within our workforce"
www.homeworking.gn.apc.org/pubs/lfw.html#part2
Looking for Homework - What to AVOID
Having decided, for whatever reason, that you want to look for work to do at home, you may have gathered that finding genuine homework can be difficult and time consuming. It may be tempting to reply to advertisements for homework that you see in the press or in shop windows. A typical advertisement might look like this:
Recruitment Schemes
Advertisements for recruitment schemes are often found in newsagents and Post Offices. The advertisement will ask you to send off a stamped addressed envelope (SAE) for more details. In return you will receive a request for a registration fee, to deter time wasters or to cover administration costs, typically £15.00. Once you have sent the fee, you will receive instructions to place adverts, like the one that you replied to, in other shop windows, often using your own address for replies. You will then have to mail out the SAE’s sent in response to your adverts, containing a letter from the scheme organiser requesting a fee from other potential homeworkers. The scheme organiser will pay you about 30p per enquiry that you forward onto them. This means that at least 50 people would have to send £15.00 to the scheme organiser before you even earned back your initial fee.
This is a typical example of a bogus homeworking scheme in that there is no product to be made and the only way that you can make any money is by becoming involved in the scheme yourself. NGH would always advise that you never send money to a recruitment scheme.
Envelope Addressing
Like the recruitment scheme you will be asked to send a fee. You will be expected to address envelopes, by hand, using address lists provided (these may be copies of pages from telephone directories). This work is often rejected for failing quality standards which are very difficult, if not impossible, to meet. In these cases you will not get paid and won’t be able to get a refund on your initial outlay.
Other Misleading Homeworking Schemes
There are a number of other misleading homeworking schemes being advertised in both the local and national press and in shop windows all over the UK. Most common are directory schemes and kit schemes.
Directory Schemes
These ask you to send a fee (usually £15) in return for a list of companies offering work to Homeworkers. You are encouraged to believe that the companies are reputable and are offering genuine work. What you actually receive for your money is just a list of photocopied sheets, or a booklet of names, addresses or adverts for homework, each asking for a registration fee of anywhere between £10 and £200. To our knowledge there is no such thing as a directory of companies offering genuine homeworking opportunities.
Kit Schemes
These are schemes designed to attract people who enjoy making things and often have an ‘arts & crafts’ emphasis, such as making lampshades or hand painting pictures, wall plaques or miniature clay cottages. You are invited to send money to a company in return for a kit. The kit is supposed to contain the necessary materials from which you can make a product which the company say they will buy from you once completed. When the kit arrives it may have good materials in it, but no instructions on how to assemble the item, or it might contain inadequate or insufficient materials with which to make the product. Either way it makes little difference because, whatever you send back to the company, the item is likely to be rejected on the basis that you have failed their quality standards and you will not be paid.
Again you can not get a refund on your initial outlay, because you have used the kit.
Many of these schemes can appear genuine. Their literature can look very professional and the rates of pay on offer can be very tempting. However, as with trying to find other kinds of work, you should never have to pay to get homework. If a company is asking you for money up-front for homework, NGH would always advise you never to send any money and have nothing to do with this type of scheme.
