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Wanneer: 13/02/2013 - 22:38

Verplicht werken in Engeland verboden: Het is slavernij

De rechter heeft geoordeeld dat verplicht werken in ruil voor een uitkering niet mag.

Vandaag werd ik er weer eens op gewezen dat ik verplicht ben om onbetaald vrijwilligerswerk aan te nemen met doorbetaling van uitkering, terwijl de bazen van dat soort organisaties zich verrijken.

Denk dat ik maar eens een rechtzaak ga aanspannen als het zo ver is. Is er hier nog nooit iemand in Nederland voor naar de rechter gestapt?

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Graduate Wins Appeal Over Unpaid Work Scheme
10:39am UK, Tuesday 12 February 2013

Cait Reilly and an unemployed driver succeed in their claims that the Government's unpaid job schemes were legally flawed.

A university graduate who was made to work at Poundland for free under a Government scheme has won her Court of Appeal claim.

Cait Reilly, 24, had argued that being forced to work in the discount shop for nothing while she looked for a permanent job was unlawful.

Three judges in London ruled that the regulations under which most of the Government's back-to-work schemes were created are unlawful and quashed them.

Their solicitors said later the ruling means "all those people who have been sanctioned by having their jobseekers' allowance withdrawn for non-compliance with the back-to-work schemes affected will be entitled to reclaim their benefits".