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UK: DWP orders man to work without pay for company that let him go - John McArthur is sanctioned by jobcentre after refusing ‘forced labour’ at firm where he was previously paid minimum wage

04 November 2014

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"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."

See the story: DWP orders man to work without pay for company that let him go - John McArthur is sanctioned by jobcentre after refusing ‘forced labour’ at firm where he was previously paid minimum wage (Guardian, link)

For background see: Discipline and discontent: coalition government extends "slave labour" welfare policy, by Chris Jones (Statewatch database)

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