Unpaid labour for 'workshy' slammed

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;208" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-208" style&equals;"width&colon; 200px" class&equals;"wp-caption alignnone"><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2010&sol;11&sol;Main-News-1-1&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-208" title&equals;"Unpaid labour for 'workshy' slammed" src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2010&sol;11&sol;Main-News-1-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Unpaid labour for 'workshy' slammed" width&equals;"200" height&equals;"201" &sol;><&sol;a><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-208" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Unpaid labour for &&num;39&semi;workshy&&num;39&semi; slammed<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>Government plans to force the long-term unemployed to do unpaid manual labour have come under fire from Labour&comma; unions&comma; charities and the Archbishop of Canterbury&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith will this week unveil plans for four-week programmes of compulsory community work&comma; doing jobs like litter-picking or gardening&comma; for jobless people deemed to have lost the work ethic&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>His Cabinet colleague Danny Alexander said the Work Activity placements will be used as a &&num;8220&semi;sanction&&num;8221&semi; against benefit claimants who fail to take advantage of available support to find employment&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>But Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams said the plan was not fair and could drive vulnerable people into despair&comma; telling BBC WM Radio&colon; &&num;8220&semi;People who are struggling to find work and struggling to find a secure future are&comma; I think&comma; driven further into a sort of downward spiral of uncertainty&comma; even despair&comma; when the pressure is on in that way&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;People often are in this starting place&comma; not because they are wicked or stupid or lazy but because circumstances have been against them &&num;8230&semi; and to drive that spiral deeper does seem a great problem&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Under Mr Duncan Smith&&num;8217&semi;s plans&comma; job advisers will be able to direct jobseekers who they believe would &&num;8220&semi;benefit from experiencing the habits and routines of working life&&num;8221&semi; to undertake a 30-hours-per-week work placement&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The scheme is expected to be targeted at thousands of claimants believed to have opted for a life on benefits or to have an undeclared job on the side&period; Anyone refusing to take part could have their £65-a-week Jobseekers Allowance stopped for at least three months&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Duncan Smith said&colon; &&num;8220&semi;One thing we can do is pull people in to do one or two weeks&&num;8217&semi; manual work &&num;8211&semi; turn up at 9am and leave at 5pm&comma; to give people a sense of work&comma; but also when we think they&&num;8217&semi;re doing other work&period; The message will go across&semi; play ball or it&&num;8217&semi;s going to be difficult&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>But shadow work and pensions secretary Douglas Alexander accused the Government of &&num;8220&semi;focusing on the work-shy but offering nothing to the workless&&num;8221&semi;&comma; while TUC senior policy officer Richard Exell said the policy would be &&num;8220&semi;very unfair to unemployed people&comma; especially long-term unemployed people&&num;8221&semi;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Richard Hawkes&comma; chief executive of disability charity Scope&comma; said&colon; &&num;8220&semi;Many disabled people would find work experience beneficial&comma; but such schemes are only of use if they are tailored to the individual and are designed to help them develop relevant skills and experience&period; 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