She wants us to keep paying her £53.45 to do voluntary work at a museum. Miss Reilly’s solicitor, Jim Duffy, said the practice contravenes article 4 (2) of the Human Rights Act, which states: ‘No one shall be required to perform forced or compulsory labour.’
Of course no one is making her do forced labour. With Labour toughening its stance in response to voter opinion, the days of something for nothing in the welfare field look numbered, and it doesn't seem unreasonable for recipients of JSA to do some placement stints. It may be boring and even demeaning - but you're getting other people's money. It's not forced or compulsory - you don't have to take our money.
Mr Duffy, from Public Interest Lawyers in Birmingham, said:
This Government has created – without Parliamentary authority – a complex array of schemes that allow Jobcentres to force people into futile, unpaid labour for weeks or months at a time.There seem to be questions about what she was told or not told. But we can't all have fulfilling work. Cait can do as much agreeable voluntary work as she likes. But not with an indefinite subsidy from taxpayers.
We have no problem with Government schemes that increase the chances of people gaining employment – that is key to combating the current economic crisis – but these “work for benefit schemes” have been proven in other countries to do nothing other than increase the cycle of unemployment and poverty.
Cait wasn’t told when she went to the open day that she was committing herself to work for free. She has been taken away from a voluntary role useful to help her break into the career she would like to have, simply to stack shelves.
5 comments:
you omitted to say if lady having to work at poundland for her benefit,was offered paid employment and a job,suffice tosay,no she wasnt. poundland dont want to payout for a paid employee,when they can get employees that are paid by the taxpayer. are poundland indirectly been paid by the taxpayer.
why is the story about cait working at museum voluntarily on benefit fraud page. she has not committed benefit fraud,this is misleading
Ah the sword of truth bravely wielded by anonymous posters. Did I say this was a benefit fraud in legal terms? No.
Her human rights action is a moral fraud on taxpayers.
So you don't think there are any more deserving recipients of free labour than Tesco & Poundland?
You sound like an odious little twerp that hates young people, hates the unemployed regardless of their circumstances.
I'm interested to know if/when you will be starting sister sites for MP and corporate tax fraud?
I am totally against benefit fraud, but your blog smacks of a bitter, blinkered curtain twitching notepad-jotting one man vendetta. You'd have done quite well in Germany back in the 30s.
More brave abuse from an anonymous contributor. You are, of course, free to start any sites and blogs you like.
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