A Birmingham graduate is unhappy stacking shelves and is taking legal action against the government over a scheme which she says forces people to do unpaid work.The graduate is trying to find work in the museum sector but she said her JobCentre Plus advisor told her she had to work for free at a Poundland store stacking shelves for two weeks or risk losing her benefits. The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions is due to respond to her case on 14 December so I hope that we don’t invest too much legal aid in this case
Poundland said in a statement its work experience is designed to help people find work in the retail sector. OK – Not too much dinosaur bone or leather fragment from Anglo-Saxon archaeological digging mixed into the ten bog rolls for a quid aisle but lets take a minute to pause ……
LOOK OUT THE WINDOW – READ THE NEWSPAPER – WATCH THE TV and keep stacking those shelves darling because I don’t see any big expansion in “museum sector”, libraries or anything similar in the next decade. If you lose the attitude you may make it to checkouts by next Christmas.
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