Operational employees. Strategic management. Vacancies Worldwide. G4S India Jobs Update. Social Responsibility. Corporate Social Responsibility Policy Home. Corporate Social Responsibility Policy. G4S 4teen. G4S partnership with NGOs. Supporting Sports. In April , thousands of Palestinian detainees went on hunger strike calling for more access to their families and an end to solitary confinement and administrative detention.
In addition to targeting the company directly for example, in Palestine solidarity campaigners joined No Borders activists in a protest outside the G4S AGM in London , campaigners in Europe and the UK have also focused on targeting local councils that have contracts with G4S, demanding that they exclude the company from bidding in future.
Pressure was especially strong in Denmark, where politicians made pronouncements and the public demonstrated against the company. Large pension funds, and even the city of Copenhagen, began to consider divesting from G4S. Freedom of information requests have revealed that a number of councils in England including Birmingham, Bristol and Wakefield, have had, currently have, or are considering contractual arrangements with G4S.
Worried by the mounting criticism of its work in Palestine, G4S resolved in to pull out of contracts to provide services to residential West Bank settlements. We will aim to complete this exit as soon as possible, but also recognise that we have contractual obligations to our customers which we must take into consideration.
It is likely that resistance against G4S will therefore continue until the company exits all its Israeli contracts. T6r0nehPuhU, [accessed May ].
G4S also provides other policing-related services, including prisoner and detainee transport services on behalf of police and court services, as well as police recruitment facilities. While taking over police forces may be unprecedented, recruiting former cops is nothing new at G4S. In the regions G4S is operating in, , people will be sent from the Jobcentre to a G4S office, where they will then be sent to another organization that G4S has contracted to do the work it is being paid for.
So why bother getting G4S involved at all? G4S had already supplied benefit fraud officers to housing and benefits departments to snoop out and report benefit fraud,[4] and such skills will inevitably be put to use by the Work Programme. But getting a job is not the only way to come off benefits; you could also have your benefits cut if you are deemed to be not looking hard enough. However the majority of these referrals have been turned down, with the reasons given for sanctioning deemed inappropriate, suggesting G4S is even more eager than the coalition to cut benefits.
Of 7, referrals made, 2, have led to people having their benefits cut. Note some referrals remain outstanding or have been cancelled. For a full analysis of the figures see here. The big change from the Flexible New Deal is that provider companies like G4S will receive only a small upfront fee per person, and even this will be phased out over the next three years. To make serious money from the programme, we are told, providers have to actually get people into work.
But with not too many jobs around, these targets will be hard to meet. The government has already said it will not be releasing progress statistics until the programme has been running for 18 months, so there will be no way to analyze its performance before October Initial signs are not encouraging, though. For example, the Department for Work and Pensions and G4S have recently asked The Guardian not to publish figures from the Hull office of Pertemps, one of the companies subcontracted by G4S, as they were not meeting their targets.
So how is G4S going to make its money? Advisers told the Guardian a lot of the jobs they do find are part time, 20 hours or fewer, even when the individuals wanted full-time work. G4S is unconcerned: it gets paid as long as they stop claiming benefits. They claim companies like G4S are choosing to work with unemployed people who are most likely to gain employment, while passing on people with less chances of finding a job quickly to charities. But happily for G4S, its knowledge of the corridors of power in this sector are intimate enough to allow it to stay closer to policy-makers than charities and other rivals see the Staff section for details.
Indeed, the company took over the national security contract for the Department for Work and Pensions in January No doubt more lucrative contrcts, and better working relations, are in the pipeline.
Our People. Our History. Memberships and industry expertise. What we do. Security solutions Home. Security solutions. Cash Solutions. Consulting Services. Care and Justice. He told the Sun that they "underestimated the complexity of having to get 10, people trained up and accredited in a relatively short period of time".
G4S has suspended nine employees over allegations of "chaos, incompetence and abuse" at the Brook House immigration centre near Gatwick Airport.
Undercover footage filmed for the BBC's Panorama reportedly shows officers "mocking, abusing and assaulting" people. It "immediately" began an investigation but said it had not been provided with recordings of the alleged abuse and the suspensions are "precautionary". Brook House, which opened in , holds nearly adult male illegal immigrants and asylum seekers and foreign criminals.
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