Cait Reilly, the graduate who was forced to work for free at Poundland, has won her Court of Appeal claim that to do so was unlawful.
Reilly was joined in her appeal by Jamieson Wilson, an unemployed HGV driver who had been required to clean furniture for six months under the government’s Community Action Programme. When Wilson refused, he was stripped of his jobseeker’s allowance for six months in sanction.
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