Young Unemployed in Britain Forced to Work Without Pay or Lose Benefits
Submitted on November 16, 2011
By Shiv Malik - The Guardian
Britain's young unemployed are being sent to work for supermarkets and budget stores for up to two months for no pay and no guarantee of a job...Under the government's work experience programme young jobseekers are exempted from national minimum wage laws for up to eight weeks and are being offered placements in Tesco, Poundland, Argos, Sainsbury's and a multitude of other big name businesses.
