A university graduate yesterday issued a landmark judicial review proceedings against the Government after she was forced to stack shelves at Poundland.

Cait Reilly, 22, has been looking for work since she left Birmingham University and has been volunteering on an unpaid basis until ordered to accept a two-week placement in the retail sector.

This involved her sweeping up and filling the shelves at the Poundland store in Kings Heath, Birmingham, also on an unpaid basis.

Work experience: Cait Reilly said she had to sweep up and fill the shelves at the Poundland store in Kings Heath, Birmingham

Now lawyers acting for the geology graduate have launched proceedings claiming that she had been made to carry out 'forced labour' or lose her benefits.

She had been looking for work in the museum sector and had undertaken unpaid voluntary work at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery.

Her solicitor Jim Duffy claims this is against the European Convention on Human Rights.

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She was forced into nothing, she could have stayed at home.

Oh, but then she would get no money for doing nowt?

Diddums

I'm back in the UK now, looking for another overseas posting.

But at 75 years old I doubt many jobs will be open to me, so I am also looking round the supermarkets and so on for shelf-filling type of work. So long as I am doing something and keeping a bit of money rolling in, I'm happy.

Amazing.

This generation.....whome seem to consider the world owes them a life.

Universal. This is the hope for the future.

Wait a minute, she was forced to work for free, otherwise she would lose her benefits? I'm not sure of the meaning "for free" here. She wants to get money from the government, so the government can tell her what to work - and she has the right to refuse and not get any money. I don't see any case of forced labour here.

Post graduate study...maybe she should have completed a more "useful" degree. She wants life on a plate it seems to me...

The story isn't quite as simple as it sounds (no surprise there with the DM).

"She had been looking for work in the museum sector and had undertaken unpaid voluntary work at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery."

She was already working for nothing in a place where she was trying to get a job. All the stint in Poundland did was to absent her from prospective employment for two weeks.

The story isn't quite as simple as it sounds (no surprise there with the DM).

"She had been looking for work in the museum sector and had undertaken unpaid voluntary work at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery."

She was already working for nothing in a place where she was trying to get a job. All the stint in Poundland did was to absent her from prospective employment for two weeks.

but endure, i would also like to be a full time beer and brass taster in soho , sure i wont get paid, but hey the goverment are paying me every week !, and the tax payer are footing the bill !,

with poundland, they are paying back to the goverment her time !, so recouping the money paid for her doing something she likes, which i have no promblem, but we cant all sit on our arse doing something we like untill our dream job comes about !!!

Now lawyers acting for the geology graduate

And whom is paying for these lawyers?

The story isn't quite as simple as it sounds (no surprise there with the DM).

"She had been looking for work in the museum sector and had undertaken unpaid voluntary work at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery."

She was already working for nothing in a place where she was trying to get a job. All the stint in Poundland did was to absent her from prospective employment for two weeks.

but endure, i would also like to be a full time beer and brass taster in soho , sure i wont get paid, but hey the goverment are paying me every week !, and the tax payer are footing the bill !,

with poundland, they are paying back to the goverment her time !, so recouping the money paid for her doing something she likes, which i have no promblem, but we cant all sit on our arse doing something we like untill our dream job comes about !!!

I'm sorry - could you translate that into English please?

Now lawyers acting for the geology graduate

And whom is paying for these lawyers?

I've no idea. I think she's being exceptionally stupid getting the law involved. The fact remains that she was working for free in a place where she was trying to get a permanent job and 'the government' thought it would be a good idea to make her work for free in a place where she had no chance of getting a permanent job.

Does everything really cost a pound?

Now lawyers acting for the geology graduate

And whom is paying for these lawyers?

I've no idea. I think she's being exceptionally stupid getting the law involved. The fact remains that she was working for free in a place where she was trying to get a permanent job and 'the government' thought it would be a good idea to make her work for free in a place where she had no chance of getting a permanent job.

She wasn't working for free, she got money from the government. She just didn't get her dream job. Spoiled b*tch.

Now lawyers acting for the geology graduate

And whom is paying for these lawyers?

I've no idea. I think she's being exceptionally stupid getting the law involved. The fact remains that she was working for free in a place where she was trying to get a permanent job and 'the government' thought it would be a good idea to make her work for free in a place where she had no chance of getting a permanent job.

As already mentioned though, she we 'forced' to do nothing.

She could have chosen to carry on doing what she was doing, instead of doing what she feels she is too special for doing. Of course she would then not get paid for it but then, tough tittie. She has an opportunity to make money taken from the taxpayers (many of whom stack shelves themselves), but that isn't good enough for little miss Princess.

The government was paying her to work in Poundland, she WAS NOT expected to work for free. I think it's a bit foolish of the government, if she has a genuine opportunity of getting a job at the museum, but all this talk of forced labour detracts from the point.

I also expect that she would be able to get a paid job elsewhere and 'work' for the museum part time, for free. Millions of people take second jobs, why can't she? And she's happy to work for a museum that doesn't pay her, but getting paid to work elsewhere is not good enough?

Personally, I think the spoilt cow's next assignment should be road sweeping. Might teach her some humility.

The story isn't quite as simple as it sounds (no surprise there with the DM).

"She had been looking for work in the museum sector and had undertaken unpaid voluntary work at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery."

She was already working for nothing in a place where she was trying to get a job. All the stint in Poundland did was to absent her from prospective employment for two weeks.

but endure, i would also like to be a full time beer and brass taster in soho , sure i wont get paid, but hey the goverment are paying me every week !, and the tax payer are footing the bill !,

with poundland, they are paying back to the goverment her time !, so recouping the money paid for her doing something she likes, which i have no promblem, but we cant all sit on our arse doing something we like untill our dream job comes about !!!

I'm sorry - could you translate that into English please?

Sorry Endure, didnt realise you had trouble understanding plain, clear and simple english , so i have posted a video below to help you out

http://www.youtube.com/user/MinooAngloLink?v=ssuiqtreiBg&feature=pyv

Now lawyers acting for the geology graduate

And whom is paying for these lawyers?

You are.

The story isn't quite as simple as it sounds (no surprise there with the DM).

"She had been looking for work in the museum sector and had undertaken unpaid voluntary work at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery."

She was already working for nothing in a place where she was trying to get a job. All the stint in Poundland did was to absent her from prospective employment for two weeks.

but endure, i would also like to be a full time beer and brass taster in soho , sure i wont get paid, but hey the goverment are paying me every week !, and the tax payer are footing the bill !,

with poundland, they are paying back to the goverment her time !, so recouping the money paid for her doing something she likes, which i have no promblem, but we cant all sit on our arse doing something we like untill our dream job comes about !!!

I'm sorry - could you translate that into English please?

Sorry Endure, didnt realise you had trouble understanding plain, clear and simple english , so i have posted a video below to help you out

http://www.youtube.c...iBg&feature=pyv

I have no problem understanding plain, clear and simple English. That's why I asked you for a translation.

Does everything really cost a pound?

I believe so.

Does everything really cost a pound?

That's what their shopfront fascia says - at least on the one in Cambridge I saw today.

(Never been inside - don't sell beer)

Guys, this story is a wheeze from the Daily bloody Mail, for God`s sake! And you are getting your knickers in a twist over it!

At least the Sport has bare ladies....

I'm sorry but there's no logic in the way this woman was treated even though she may be terminally stupid for involving the law. She's out of work. She's being paid the dole (Welfare for our US cousins). She's working for free in a museum. Museums are publicly funded thus she's saving the taxpayer the cost of employing someone else at public expense. The DWP try and force her to work for free for 2 weeks at Poundland. Poundland is a private commercial organisation. If she works there for 2 weeks she'll still be paid the same dole as she would be if she were working at the museum. It won't cost Poundland anything so they're getting two weeks worth of free labour which the taxpayer is paying for whilst the museum, which is publicly funded, will lose two weeks worth of free labour. How logical is that?

There may be some common sense lacking, but then, perhaps not.

How likely is she to get a job at the museum? For how long would the tax payer have to fund little miss princess for getting to do exactly what she wants while everybody else has to compromise? Weeks? Months? Years?..... We don't know, but she's been doing it for months already.

She's already had a shot at getting her job with the help of the government and taxpayer, she failed. It's time to begin looking for a proper job like everybody else. Tough titty.

And how is she being forced?

Does everything really cost a pound?

That's what their shopfront fascia says - at least on the one in Cambridge I saw today.

(Never been inside - don't sell beer)

A Pound or less !

But the pack-size may often be adjusted, to give you only a quid's-worth, of what you are buying. These shops are ideal for disposing-of end-of-production-run stock, or bankrupt-stock, or close-to-expiry-date stock. As always ... buyer beware !

Looks more like a bloke to me.

Clearly a lesbian with an attitude. She only had to work two dam_n weeks, jeeze, get a life.

And

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She has now returned to her voluntary role at the city’s Pen Room Museum of writing and pen trade memorabilia, still looking for paid employment.

"Pen room museum!" My arse! What a total waste of molecules.

Whaaaaaaaaaat?

A pen museum? A museum of pens? A museum of the Birmingham pen trade? Pens?

Of course, a position in the Birmingham pens museum will open up a wealth of opportunities for her.

Dappy mare.

This thread's far too fine (and amusing) to be languishing in the sandpit. Posts such as these should be in the general asylum. I have to say though, post #14 contained succinct and compelling points. (Common sense in the sandpit, yet... who'd have thought!)

I believe a lot of the top companies who signed up to this scheme with the Government are now pulling out. Apparently they don't want the bad press associated with slave labour etc.