She was fucking volunteering.
This is the whole point of why this was a story.
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is there a danger that someone could "volunteer" at a non job and still claim benefits
i.e. sit with their mate at a comic shop etc.
Just wondering, not basing it on anything I've read as this would be a logical reason to clamp down on the volunteer versus work - benefits thing.
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HappyToast Groat froth, Sun 17 Feb 2013, 15:01,
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I think the job needs to be approved/supplied by the job centre first
There's a fair bit of red tape. I was forced into free labour at a warehouse under the same rules 10 years ago. It was awful.
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mookay immune to icons since, Sun 17 Feb 2013, 16:13,
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The problem is that there is a shortage of volunteer roles in the charity sector
With a lack of jobs (especially low-paid part-time work), many students and graduates volunteered to gain work experience. The volunteer sector did not have enough volunteer managers nor charities to receive the influx.
This is why the volunteer work you will get is basically doing a paid job for free in the service of a profit-making business while being treated legally as a volunteer.
Businesses have already been criticised for abusing the economic situation by using unpaid graduate internships as a source of free labour.
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