Oh boo hoo; get over yourself. You should be glad that some hard-pressed employer trying to make a profit so that he can employ people is good enough to spare the time for you to faff around so you can have something to put on your CV. You probably want free, taxpayer-funded education too.

Unpaid work experience is third world practice. I know where Nurses have to do 3 months unpaid work time at 12 hours a day before they are accepted as trainee nurse. This happens in a third world country.
Here it is just budging on someone for nothing. It is a far right thing.

I tend to disagree, given this often the only way some folk can get enough work experience to actually make them useful. And or demonstrate some go getter initiative.

As long as it can be accomplished in three or so months, and while the applicant remains supported by the state nanny teat? If someone is paying something as support income, this is hardly slavery!

Up to me, they'd be sent to boot camp to toughen them up! Learn team work, survival skills, self reliance and self confidence, all while building self esteem and creating the sort of persona, an employer looks for!
Alan B.

Presumably people doing work experience are supported by the state and if it leads to a job, then who cares if it's slavery?
I have an autistic grandson on DSP who did two mornings a week unpaid in an IT repair shop and who now has a permanent part time job with them because they were so pleased with his work ethic.
He was happy to do it just for the skill gain alone, the job was an extra bonus.

The real problem is the lack of paid work available, and that in turn is the result of the government running contractionary fiscal policy instead of providing the stimulus that's needed.

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SURVIVAL SKILLS, Alan B? Why would you want that?

There are certainly some people who'd react in the way you think, but most of them would've joined the army anyway. For far more people, such a course of action would be deeply destructive, both to them and the nation due to the resentment caused.

Let us not devalue the meaning of "slavery":
Slavery has nothing to do with being paid or not being paid - slavery occurs when one is forced to obey orders under threat of violence.