UK charities were urged not to take part in the government’s new ‘workfare’ programme launched on Monday 28 April. Community Work Placements require that jobseeker’s allowance (JSA) claimants do six months work placement or risk losing their benefits. Unite calls the scheme “nothing more than forced unpaid labour”.
From "Charity bosses urged to shun 'workforce' scheme by Unite", Mon 28 April 2014. Unite is the country’s largest union with 60,000 members in the voluntary sector.
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