{"id":14626,"date":"2012-08-07T02:52:36","date_gmt":"2012-08-07T01:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=14626"},"modified":"2012-08-07T02:52:36","modified_gmt":"2012-08-07T01:52:36","slug":"uk-government-allowed-to-force-unpaid-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/uk-government-allowed-to-force-unpaid-work\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Government Allowed To Force &#8220;Unpaid&#8221; Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The British High Court has ruled that a government &#8216;back to work&#8217; scheme does not breach human rights.<\/p>\n<p>High Court judge Mr Justice Foskett said:\u00a0\u201cCharacterising such a scheme as involving or being analogous to \u2018slavery\u2019 or \u2018forced labour\u2019 seems to me to be a long way from contemporary thinking,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tessa Gregory, of Public Interest Lawyers, said: \u201cToday&#8217;s decision should mean that many of those subjected to benefit sanctions will be entitled to reimbursement by the Department for Work and Pensions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/society\/2012\/aug\/06\/unpaid-work-scheme-benefits-rebate\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British High Court has ruled that a government &#8216;back to work&#8217; scheme does not breach human rights. High Court judge Mr Justice Foskett said:\u00a0\u201cCharacterising such a scheme as involving or being analogous to \u2018slavery\u2019 or \u2018forced labour\u2019 seems to me to be a long way from contemporary thinking,\u201d Tessa Gregory, of Public Interest Lawyers, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14626","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}