Man rejects unpaid slave labour job forced upon him by the Jobcentre, at the place he used to work. Aah, the wonders of Workfare. Via The Guardian>>> A man who was let go at the end of a temporary job has been ordered by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to work for the same firm for six months without pay. Electronics specialist John McArthur, now unemployed, says he is living off 16p tins of spaghetti and without heating after being sanctioned by a jobcentre for refusing to work unpaid for LAMH Recycle in Motherwell, a Scottish social enterprise. He says he was happy to work for LAMH under the now-defunct future jobs fund for the minimum wage in 2010-2011, but refuses on principle to do the same job unpaid. McArthur, 59, says he is surviving on a monthly pension of £149 after the DWP stopped his unemployment benefit until January as punishment for his refusal to go on the 26-week community work placement (CWP). [AA] theguardian/society/2014/nov/03/dwp-benefits-electrician-work-placement-labour
Posted on: Mon, 03 Nov 2014 22:33:13 +0000
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