Stuart Rose says fury at jobless scheme is baffling
THE FORMER executive chairman of Marks & Spencer has voiced disdain at the businesses withdrawing from the government’s unpaid work experience scheme for jobless people.
Sir Stuart Rose told Dermot Murnaghan, “One or two of them have shown a little less than backbone.”
Calling the outrage provoked by the scheme “baffling”, Sir Stuart said: “We’ve got a budget next week, we’ve got the economy which has been through terrible times, we’ve got a need to get people’s confidence going [and] get the country back to work.”
Sir Stuart, who stacked shelves and swept floors as a management trainee in M&S 40 years ago, thinks the scheme is valuable for getting young people into the routine of waking up early and looking presentable.
He said, “There is some plan to sabotage this, which I think is nonsense.”