Ahead of the budget, the cheeky hackers over at HackChange have unveiled the ShitJobs.net website, ‘highlighting that the fall in unemployment isn’t all it’s cracked up to be’.
The website emphasises that many jobs created since 2010 have been on so-called ‘zero-hours contracts’, where the worker has no guarantee of time, pay or protected conditions.
Chancellor George Osborne is expected to point to the drop in unemployment as a successful part of the Conservative’s ‘long-term economic plan’.
Andrew Tobert, organiser at Hack Change, said:
“We want to disrupt the prevailing narrative around the economy – there hasn’t been a jobs miracle – there’s been a huge gang-raiding of what we’re all paid and the conditions of those jobs.”
HackChange has hosted a series of hack days in the run up to the election to create ‘radical and fun’ interventions’ to get people interested in the 2015 general election. The group has also created the Frack-a-mole game and the MPs R Us website, and believe they have reached more than half a million people with their viral-style projects.