Workfare Workfare is coming to a job near you Be on the lookout for some new people in your workplace this spring.
Chances are they ll be welfare recipients being forced to work for their meagre cheques.
It s called workfare and it s a much-cherished policy of the Harris government. Under the Conservatives, welfare is no longer a right for people in need and between jobs. It s become workfare, a program that punishes people in need and provides a pool of cheap labour to threaten and undermine union jobs. Another blow to government workers. And the lay-offs keep coming.