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Originally Posted by nomadking
Every scheme that has tried to give young people some work experience has been criticised as being "slave labour".
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Yes, I think it is slave labour.
I have never been on ‘work experience’. I went straight into my first job following an interview, and was then subject to a probationary period, but I got paid for it.
The Labour Party really is not helping anyone here. They want to see unpaid work experience and they keep tightening up on employment laws which deters employers from taking on inexperienced people as paid employees in case they are hopeless and then have to dismiss them, which is a right palaver these days.
Labour needs to get real and stop pandering to knee-jerk employer-hating advocates.