Thread by @ZoeJardiniere

Now is the time to point out that when asylum seekers are given the right to work it must be under equal conditions as other workers
❗️Minimum wage
❗️Sick pay & paid leave
‼️ NO penalty on those who are not able to find suitable/not mentally prepared to take on work #LiftTheBan

While the campaign to #LiftTheBan is good and important and will give back agency, independence and self-esteem to many asylum seekers, we must remember that asylum seekers (especially women with kids, etc) are often unable to work - traumatised, etc. & that's legitimate too.

Really, giving asylum seekers the right to work should go hand in hand with giving asylum seekers back full access to welfare support or, at the very least, raising the pitifully low levels of asylum support for all.

Oh & ending NRPF while we're at it.

I can just see the Tories introducing the same absolutely heinous benefits tests in for asylum seekers if they do this, and forcing traumatised individuals to do demanding and potentially exploitative work or face destitution. They do it to the rest of us, after all.