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Boycott Workfare is a British campaign group that has opposed "workfare" policies in the United Kingdom. The group's campaigning has been very successful in making companies and charities pull out of "workfare". In January 2014 the group lodged freedom of information requests to investigate the use of workfare by local government. This led to responses from 271 councils, and the results were 62% of them had used unpaid workers during the past two years. This amounted to more than half a million hours of unpaid labour. As of July 2014, a total of least 35 organisations have ended their involvement in workfare, because of negative publicity.

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  1. http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/jan/02/councils-benefit-half-a-million-hours-unpaid-labour-foi-request


Workfare in the United Kingdom
Workfare Programmes
Workfare Providers ('Primes')
Workfare CompaniesList of British organisations who have participated in workfare programmes
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LegislationJobseekers (Back to Work Schemes) Act 2013
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