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in Britain are sent to work in supermarkets and stores of the budget up to two months without pay and without guarantee of a job, the Guardian can reveal.

According to job seekers of government experience of youth work program are exempt from national laws of the minimum wage for up to eight weeks and internships are available in Tesco, Poundland, Argos, Sainsbury and many other great names of the companies.

The Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) said that job seekers "expressed interest" in an offer of work experience must continue to work without pay, after a week of period of reflection or face their benefits docked.

young people told the Guardian that they are up to 30 hours of unpaid work and must be available 9:00 to 10:00 p.m..

In three cases, job seekers also argue that there was no time to think about a week, and that once was willing to participate in the system, they were informed by their manager would be if stripped of his £ 53 - a week Job Seekers Allowance (JSA) if he retires

The Guardian has learned that lawyers are mounting a legal challenge to separate treatment of work experience activity known as workfare, which they believe is a form of slavery under the Human Rights Act (HRA).

Reilly, 22, is over three weeks in Poundland, working five hours a day. Reilly, who won last year with a degree in geology from the University of Birmingham, was found with five other applicants JSA last week, cleaning and stacking shelves at Poundland in South Birmingham.

She says there are about 15 other staff in the store, but, unlike them, who receive no remuneration for their work. "Looks like we are used as free labor for some, especially in the approach of Christmas."

Reilly said he told his local Jobcentre in Kings Heath, Birmingham, no experience needed in the shop as he had done much work and detail.

despite the DWP rules, Reilly says he was told by the Jobcentre who would lose their benefits if they do not take the placement Poundland. The DWP says job seekers should be informed of the period of reflection, but he could not comment on individual cases, without receiving personal data. "They told me that [the internship] was mandatory after he attended the [sale] Open," he said.

She said she felt she had to, because "without my JSA who have literally nothing."

work experience program, which is independent of a host of other programs designed to put people to work, was announced in January as a volunteer after the time the work of volunteers is from two to eight weeks.

However, the DWP has made it clear that there is a clause that allows workers Jobcentre cases across the country to force the unemployed loans. The DWP said that once they "expressed interest", including verbal consent, to make the experience that they will lose JSA if they withdraw after the first week of training.

A large supermarket told the Guardian he thought the whole plan was voluntary and that people could leave whenever they wanted without fear of punishment.

In this scheme, there is no guarantee of a job, a single interview. Many job seekers can work in a shop while cleaning or stacking shelves and compete for a potential offer of paid work.

The DWP is no overall figure for the numbers involved, so no one knows how many hundreds or thousands of young people work without pay for months.

, including similar plans, such as mandatory work activity, the sector on the basis of the academies of work and the work program, which is mainly by private companies, the government hopes hundreds of thousands of young people a week unpaid forced labor and expertise for large companies.

figures released Wednesday show that youth unemployment stands at 1.016 million.

As part of its investment Reilly have been trained by another company, giving it a note of the City and Guilds in detail.

The DWP said Reilly is unlikely that the program of work experience, but in another place called Academy sectoral work, which was announced in October.

Rayburn, who was also informed by the Jobcentre would lose their benefits if they do not work without pay, said he spent almost two months stacking shelves and cleaning, and sometimes by changes overnight.
"They said [my JSA] would be cut off if he did not."