Him wrote:
Spot on. Plus there's 8 of them on this trial and there aren't 8 jobs available at the end of the trial. There's 3 or 4 max. So 4 people will have done 2 weeks work for free.
Indeed.
And the question that this begs is how, if it's a trial, they are 'judged' and how those who do not get jobs at the end of it are 'judged' and whether that will have an impact on their benefit status. After all, if there are only four jobs and you have eight candidates, they might all be equally good, so you'll end up picking for something unrelated to the job – effectively, you have to invent another criteria. If that impacts on a benefit claim, what criteria would be used?