Boycott Workfare is a UK-wide campaign to end forced unpaid work for people who receive social security. Workfare provides free labour for businesses and charities, enforced by benefit sanctions. The companies that arrange workfare placements pocket hefty fees, while workfare takes away welfare rights.
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Know your rights! Read more here. Job Centre Advisors routinely ignore their own rules; the process for challenging bad decisions is sometimes so obscure and … Full article
Published: May 19, 2013
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This is the first of two linked posts about the DWP being forced to reveal the names of hundreds of workfare exploiters from 2012, after … Full article
Published: July 31, 2016
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