A graduate who was forced to leave her voluntary job working at a Museum in order to do unpaid work stacking shelves at Poundland, has one an important court battle with huge potential implications for the DWP's "back to work" scheme:

QUOTE: "Ms Reilly said: "I am delighted with today's judgment.
"I brought this case because I knew it was wrong when I was prevented from doing my voluntary work in a museum and forced to work in Poundland for free for two weeks as part of a scheme known as the sector based work academy.
"Those two weeks were a complete waste of my time as the experience did not help me get a job.
"I wasn't given any training and I was left with no time to do my voluntary work or search for other jobs.
"The only beneficiary was Poundland, a multimillion-pound company. Later I found out that I should never have been told the placement was compulsory.
"I don't think I am above working in shops like Poundland. I now work part time in a supermarket. It is just that I expect to get paid for working.

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