Petitions tagged with 'Work Experience'

• We want the NMC to kindly consider reducing the IELTS score required for overseas nurses to get the NMC registration in UK
  Overseas Qualified nurses need to score Individual score of 7/9 in Academic IELTS to gain registration with the Nursing Midwifery Council UK. many non-English speaking countries nurses get registration without this pre-requisite as they are in [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Tuesday 3 March 2015, Signatures: 7
• Just one party - The 'Common Sense' Party
  I petition the members of this government to all stand down and for us to have fewer MPs and those that we do have, are just in one party called 'The Common Sense' Party. This should be headed by Nigel Farage and all members of this government [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• Stop critical illness benefit cuts
  The government (Mp's) is forcing critical ill people with more than 6 months to live to do work experience or lose there benefits. this is outrageous. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Sunday 20 July 2014, Signatures: 6
• JSA linked to level of education
  This petition calls for the creation of three tiers of benefits such as JSA that are linked to the amount of work experience and level of education. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Saturday 31 January 2015, Signatures: 2
• More job opportunities for those aged 16.
  Companies cannot discriminate against age. However, large firms such as Accenture, Shell, JP Morgan and various other large firms have found a loop hole which directly does not discriminate against age. These firms do not offer any form of [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• Work experience for Brandon Lewis
  This petition is to see if we have enough public support to give the Fire Minister Brandon Lewis the opportunity to work a tour of duty on a Fire Station, so before he starts making the changes he feels are necessary, he can appreciate exactly what [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Tuesday 2 December 2014, Signatures: 2
• stop companies from internally recruiting
  Please stop all companies/public sector departments from recruiting internally to enable recruitment from the general public looking for work and experience on the job [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• Longer Work Experience for Youths
  During year 10 many students take part in work experience, however this is not viewed to be beneficial. This could be due to the short time period that students are given. Our aim is to try to extend work experience inorder to make it more worth [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• Improve employability by improving and re-instating mandatory work experience at year 10
  Youth unemployment is rising and will continue to rise while ever a retrospective approach to work experience is allowed. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Wednesday 20 November 2013, Signatures: 106
• Bring back Work Experience to al schools.
  Some schools have now stopped offering work experience to students meaning we leave school with no undersatnding of the working life.So please take your time to sign this petiton and bring back work experience. Encourage the goverment to make Work [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Saturday 12 April 2014, Signatures: 7
• 2 Weeks Annual Grassroots Experience for MPs
  MPs should take part in 2 weeks grassroots work experience every year. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Friday 11 April 2014, Signatures: 8
• Iain Duncan Smith & all MPs to live on £53 a week & go on TV
  All MPs should have 'work experience' of living on and the claiming processes of the main UK benefits, including JSA, ESA, Housing Benefit. This experience should last a minimum of 3 months, with no assistance from secretaries in form-filling, and [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• Compulsory work experience
  Academies can now abolish work experience for year 10 students, resulting in them bot getting the experience they need of the work place. There should access to a two work experience placement in January. Work experience should also be a separate [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Saturday 15 March 2014, Signatures: 46
• Extending Access to Work
  We call on the Government to extend Access to Work to all work experience, placements, internships and traineeships undertaken by disabled people of working age. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Thursday 6 February 2014, Signatures: 690
• Life skills introduced into secondry school education
  Petition for the introduction of life skills into secondary school education to coincide with personal studies lessons already given . [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• Life Skills Classes for Children/Teens
  We, the undersigned, believe the Government should incorporate mandatory “Life Skills” Classes into the Curriculum, in order to prepare our children for the Real World. We believe they should be learning skills that prepare them for Life, not [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Friday 27 December 2013, Signatures: 5
• Offer funding for Distance learning courses
  The government should extend the provision of further education funding to distance learning courses, from relevant individual modules to full degree level study and beyond. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Thursday 7 November 2013, Signatures: 2
• Job passport
  Job passort , is an up and coming dream website a group of teenagers are hoping to create and make a reality. The website we are hoping to create is aimed at teenagers, young adults and people of working age. This website allows teenagers to find [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• PIP Don;t Discriminate againstAutistic Spectrum Disorder
  Please sign this petition for people with the aboive disorder who may hold down jobs with support and need the PIP payment just as much as people who do not work. These people may experience overwhelming psychological difficulties with sensory [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Tuesday 30 July 2013, Signatures: 8
• Prepare the youth for the future
  Our main aim is to get the government to pay more companies to offer young adults between the age of 16-24 a variety of work experience opportunities. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Saturday 20 July 2013, Signatures: 4
• Free Bus Travel for under 16's in Birmingham
  As in London, bus travel is for free for under 16's I hear. I would like under 16's in Birmingham to have this opportunity also as it would be ideally good for school travel, less carbon emissions, global warming and many more. Many parents are [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• psw
  PETITION AGAINST STOPING POST STUDY WORK VISA [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• PETITION AGAINST STOPING POST STUDY WORK VISA
  UK Goverment and British council advertised in all the countries saying if students come to study in UK, they can stay back and gain work experience for 2 years after studies . But now after collecting the fees from thousands of students the [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• Abolish Slave Labour in the UK
  This is a call for the government to acknowledge the extent to which workers are being exploited in the UK through: [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Thursday 13 June 2013, Signatures: 3
• Unemployed under 30 yrs old to do work experience for their benefits
  The government have recently abandoned their drive to get young unemployed people to get work experience or risk losing their benefits. This petition demands that the government publish the average annual expenditure from all sources on a single [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Tuesday 21 May 2013, Signatures: 6
• CALL FOR GOVERNMENT TO PAY NATIONAL MINIMUM WAGE TO BENEFIT CLAIMANTS TAKING UP WORK EXPERIENCE/TRAINING
  Although government state that they are dedicated to helping unemployed citzens get back into work they have as yet failed to show the benefits that come with it. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Thursday 4 April 2013, Signatures: 11
• work experience
  Increase the number of government funded internships and paid work experience placements for graduates and young people to give them a better chance to gain valuable experience and enter their chosen profession. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Wednesday 27 February 2013, Signatures: 2
• Education - Increase in Work Experience & Spiritual lessons
  Since approx the 1960s, there has been a decline in respect from school age children. Reports of increased aggressiveness, bullying & a trend towards selfishness driven by the commercialisation of society (e.g 2011 riots). [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Sunday 30 December 2012, Signatures: 4
• Life Skills Classes for Children/Teens
  We, the undersigned, believe the Government should incorporate mandatory “Life Skills” Classes into the Curriculum, in order to prepare our children for the Real World. We believe they should be learning skills that prepare them for Life, not [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Thursday 29 November 2012, Signatures: 3
• All MPs to have work experience outside of politics
  Becoming a politician has become a career. Many MPs have little experience of life as experienced by ordinary people, and an increasing number have done nothing other than work in the field of politics. This petition asks that before a person becomes [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• Vote of No Confidence in the Current Government
  The government is failing. The poorest are suffering even more as the boardroom salaries of the richest have risen 49% in the past year alone. [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• End the exploitation of Jobseekers through the work experience program
  1. To end the Work Experience Program for no pay and pay the persons involved National Minimum Wage [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Friday 16 November 2012, Signatures: 61
• Work experience to be funded by the governement
  Work experience in high schools is now at a minimum, mainly for the fact that, the governemnet pulled the funding. It is now upto individual schools to fund this, with the average bill of £5,000 Work experience for the younger generation, to realise [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• all members of Parliament should should be made to do work experience in school, hospitals etc
  A petition making it compulsory for all Members of Parliament to do some work experience in schools, hospitals etc in order to experience exactly how hard people work in these sectors and to better understand the difficulties the people who work in [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Wednesday 31 October 2012, Signatures: 3
• All candidates to get a job interview if they meet the job criteria
  I would like to see it made compulsory for employers to interview all candidates whose applications meet the criteria of a person specification for a job. For decades, most employers have only been shortlisting the 6 or so most experienced [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• Minimum Requirements For MP Cabinet Post Candidates
  We assert that the growing number of Special political advisor's who are chosen to undertake a cabinet position, e.g. Minister, Secretary, Under secretary, Prime Minister , etc has grown at an unacceptable rate. We are concerned that potential [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Wednesday 19 September 2012, Signatures: 2
• Adult work experience to increase skills among workforce
  A new scheme should be set into place which would create work experience placements for adults, perhaps within local councils, NHS trusts, schools and other public institutions. These would be fixed periods and provide the kind of experience you can [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Sunday 16 September 2012, Signatures: 10
• Abolish unpaid internships
  Any Internship lasting more than two weeks must be subject to National Minimum Wage laws and comply with all government legislation and regulations that apply to employment and being employed in the UK. Any form of 'work experience' or attendance [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Friday 7 September 2012, Signatures: 1571
• National Service- re-build Britains youth and our future
  The government must re- introduce national service for all young adults leaving school who are not going to study in University. This will encourage our youth to further their education or to take part in supporting their nation and help shape their [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• 1 year compulsory national or public service for all young adults
  Introduce compulsory national or public service for all young adults in the UK. Give school/college leavers the choice or serving their country either in the military, or through a range of public service jobs (local councils, national parks etc) to [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• Citizen and Military Service
  National Citizen(civilian) Service and Military Service should not be voluntaty. When you reach a minimum age (16-18) it should be compulsory for Military Service, Anyone Who is unfit to serve Should do Citizen Service. Women Should have the choice [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• Use of Prisoners in Work Gangs
  Use prisoners deemed non-violent as labour in public works. This could be used as a reward system for good behaviour from prisoners. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Wednesday 15 August 2012, Signatures: 4
• Bring back funding for work experience in schools.
  We petition for the funding that allows schools to run work experience for their students to be reinstated as it is a key opportunity that many people will now miss out on. The department for education should consult with other departments where [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Saturday 25 August 2012, Signatures: 26
• Bring back funding for work experience in schools.
  We petition for the funding that allows schools to run work experience for their students to be reinstated as it is a key opportunity that many people will now miss out on. The department for education should consult with other departments where [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Wednesday 15 August 2012, Signatures: 188
• Trainee Teachers Deserve Fair Bursary Funding
  We call upon the Government to make trainee teachers bursary funding fair for all. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Friday 10 August 2012, Signatures: 17
• Politicians should have to do work experience in different sectors for 6 weeks a year
  The public have lost trust in career politicians who deliver gov. policy from an ivory tower, out of touch with the general population. Key gov. ministers have privileged backgrounds and are accused of sliding into highly paid office with little [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• Extended the Access tow ork Program for the disabled
  We call upon the Government (DWP) to EXTENDED the Access to Work Program, so that DISABLED people can receive support that will enable them to gain work experience by Volunteering, internship and or work experience. Thus aiding their ability to gain [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Tuesday 7 July 2015, Signatures: 18
• Increase the number of work experience placements for young people aged 15-19 in London.
  We are a group of young people campaigning to increase the number of work experience placements for young people in London especially for those in the boroughs of Lambeth and Southwark. We are have pledges from businesses that tell us they support [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• Compulsory vaccination for children
  There seems to be a continuing trend of people refusing to vaccinate children due to unfounded links to autism. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Monday 30 March 2015, Signatures: 1
• National cycle tracks
  Create a cycle tracks nationaly along side all major routes, using wasteland and/compulsory purchase orders for 2metre strips from land owners. Make use of millions unemployed to plan, manage and build routes as work experience retraining [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Monday 30 March 2015, Signatures: 1
• International students in the UK to get work experience opportunity
  Alot of students from overseas outside the UK and EU, especially the developing countries pay alot of money to get a better education to make a difference in the improvement of their communities all the way to their entire nation. [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 0
• stop IDS from going in our schools to recruit our children into unpaid schemes.
  children as young as 12 are to face Jobcentre harassment coercing them to join unpaid work schemes when they leave education. Jobcentres bodies are to be sent out into schools in a chilling move that IDS has pledged will have a dramatic impact on the [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 0
• Make ministers do work experience in all the jobs covered by their departments.
  People who actually do the work - eg: teaching, fishing, being creative - have real insight into what works and what doesn't work. Let's our ministers that hands on experience and set of real relationships. Then perhaps they would make wiser policy [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Wednesday 24 August 2016, Signatures: 16
• National Volunteer Service. (NVS)
  In the old days we had a national service where two years were spent training and preparing for war as apart of our public service, instead of destroying the world with our hands, we can build and heal the world by volunteering at home or abroad. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Monday 29 August 2016, Signatures: 7
• MPs to have work experience, including a public service, prior to sitting.
  I feel in order to represent the general public as an MP it is important to have an understanding of various working backgrounds of their constituents. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Wednesday 7 September 2016, Signatures: 43
• Everyone on National Minimum Wage should receive the same wage regardless of age
  I'm starting this petition simply because I and many others believe it is unfair that the Minimum Wage Rate rises in age groups. Why do under 18's get paid £3.90 less for working the same hours and carrying out the same job role as a 25+ year old? [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Thursday 3 November 2016, Signatures: 862
• Increase wages for carers of the elderly, disabled, and special needs.
  Across the UK there are many valuable care workers who help to care for the elderly and disabled which are a vital lifeline for those they care for and their families. These carers provide care, companionship, and day to day help. Carers are paid low [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 0
• To require the public sector to offer work experience for young people
  I asked what young people wanted, they replied that we want more work experience opportunities. Employers demand that an applicant has on the job experience, how can a they, just out of education, be expected to have worked in their desired field. It [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 0
• Allow students aged 16+ whose parents receive financial aid to gain employment.
  Students who's parents receive financial aid from the governments benefits system should be allowed to gain employment as they currently are not. If a parent or career receives benefits then the house hold income must stay the same to what is [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Saturday 14 January 2017, Signatures: 7
• Make relevant work experience mandatory for students doing University courses.
  I have found many Graduates I know who are unable to secure themselves job roles due to lack of experience. Also according to The Guardian in 2013, almost half of the Graduates are jobless. They are rejected due to the fact that they do not have 1 [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Friday 20 January 2017, Signatures: 6
• Make work experience a compulsory part of the Yr 9 and Yr 11 curriculum again.
  We are being made to make choices that may shape our entire career without having been given the opportunity to experience a working environment. If work experience was compulsory we could experience different types of jobs and make informed choices [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Thursday 1 January 1970, Signatures: 15
• Allow students undertaking work experience the right to accept/be paid
  As of right now students who need to undertake work experience in order to complete their course are unable to accept pay from their work experience. Students have to take a large amount of time off from their usual jobs to complete work experience [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Thursday 1 January 1970, Signatures: 16
• Members of Parliament to live on minimum wage for 3 months for Work Experience
  As with any vacancies for employment they require experience. Why is it that the Members of Parliament are excluded. Particularly when they make life changing decisions on our lives, not limited to how much one can live on a minimum wage. [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 0
• 16 and 17 year olds should be allowed to vote in any future Brexit referendum
  Young people are affected more deeply than older people by the result of the Brexit referendum, as their lives will be changed for very many more years. However, young people aged 16 to 17 were not allowed to vote in the 2016 referendum, in contrast [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Wednesday 12 September 2018, Signatures: 8
• Reintroduce mandatory work experience for students aged between 14 and 16.
  As of 2012, state-funded schools in England are not subject to a specific duty to arrange work experience for pupils of compulsory school age; until 2012, maintained schools were under a duty to provide work-related learning at Key Stage 4. [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 0
• Government needs to require harassment training for late night venue licenses
  By training staff once a year, venues can ensure that staff know what to do and who to report to, ensuring women feel safe.This can be provided by existing trainers, and has been piloted in Southwark council. Training costs, which are low, could be [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Friday 19 October 2018, Signatures: 14
• Introduce new regulations in the workplace concerning extreme heat in the U.K
  In the interest of public safety and employees in an ever increasing climate. Its only right that we should be looking to protect the public and workers from the detrimental effects of long periods of exposure in extreme heat during a period of work. [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 0
• Introduce official national ID cards or make PASS cards part of the law
  Many people lose their IDs such as driving license which is difficult and costly to replace.PASS hologram cards supposedly should fix this problem but until this day not every place recognises this type of identification.We need the government to [...]
  Status: open, Closing Date: Monday 18 March 2019, Signatures: 8
• Require companies asking for experience to provide work experience to students
  It is becoming harder and harder for students to get a work placement for work experience, and more and more companies are asking for experience for entry level positions. I propose that in order to ask for experience for entry level positions, you [...]
  Status: open, Closing Date: Thursday 2 May 2019, Signatures: 21