Recruiters to get paid for placing workers

Private companies could be paid thousands of taxpayers’ money for each person they take off the dole and place in a job, under radical plans to return people to work.

The Government plans to outsource the placement of unemployed people in jobs with private recruitment companies, a move expected to meet with fierce opposition from trade unions.

Joan Burton, the social protection minister, said, that under the scheme, the incentive is “very strong” for private firms to get people jobs.