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• What do you call a job without pay or employment rights?
  Posted on February 12, 2013 by Louise Restell
  Being forced to work in Poundland may not be very nice, but equating it with modern-day slavery is probably exaggerating. On the other hand, it’s quite reprehensible for an apparently reputable and successful business to employ people to do jobs that need doing and not pay them anything at all, even if the government has asked them to. It’s exploitation, even if the Court of Appeal couldn’t say so.
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  Posted in: Employment law
  Tagged: Cait Reilly, Back to Work, slavery, Poundland, Frances O'Grady, shares, employment rights