Enter the Pitbull
Luke Young
[h=1]ÔÇÿCrazyÔÇÖ court win for the workshy[/h][h=2]Storm as benefits girl Cait Reilly is backed over Human Rights[/h]By TOM NEWTON DUNN, Political Editor
Published: Today at 01:35
[h=3]A MINISTER has blasted a "crazy" move which would allow the workshy to snub a scheme to help get them a job.[/h]It came after a jobless girl won a judicial review of a threat to take her dole away if she refuses to complete a work placement.
Graduate Cait Reilly was sent to stack shelves for two weeks at Poundland to teach her the work ethic.
But she claimed it amounted to "slave labour" and is using the Human Rights Act to overturn the Government's flagship get-tough policy.
Ex-geology student Reilly, 22, is joined in the court move by an unnamed middle aged man out of work for two years.
He refused to work six months unpaid under a community action scheme, calling it "an attack on his dignity". The Royal Court of Justice will now hear their protests.
But last night Employment Minister Chris Grayling vowed to "fight this case all the way".
Fighting case ... Chris Grayling
He told The Sun: "It will be crazy for the courts to overrule the Government and allow people to sit at home on benefits doing nothing.
"The idea that getting people to do something that will get them back to work is a contradiction of human rights is ridiculous."
Giving evidence to MPs on the flagship Work Programme yesterday, he said some people are "less ready" to do work than expected.
He also hit out at some coverage of the scheme.
He told MPs: "I was very disappointed by some of the coverage of the BBC.
I think the Guardian newspaper got some things wrong but I think that the BBC had more of a duty to get things right."
Published: Today at 01:35
[h=3]A MINISTER has blasted a "crazy" move which would allow the workshy to snub a scheme to help get them a job.[/h]It came after a jobless girl won a judicial review of a threat to take her dole away if she refuses to complete a work placement.
Graduate Cait Reilly was sent to stack shelves for two weeks at Poundland to teach her the work ethic.
But she claimed it amounted to "slave labour" and is using the Human Rights Act to overturn the Government's flagship get-tough policy.
Ex-geology student Reilly, 22, is joined in the court move by an unnamed middle aged man out of work for two years.
He refused to work six months unpaid under a community action scheme, calling it "an attack on his dignity". The Royal Court of Justice will now hear their protests.
But last night Employment Minister Chris Grayling vowed to "fight this case all the way".
Fighting case ... Chris Grayling
He told The Sun: "It will be crazy for the courts to overrule the Government and allow people to sit at home on benefits doing nothing.
"The idea that getting people to do something that will get them back to work is a contradiction of human rights is ridiculous."
Giving evidence to MPs on the flagship Work Programme yesterday, he said some people are "less ready" to do work than expected.
He also hit out at some coverage of the scheme.
He told MPs: "I was very disappointed by some of the coverage of the BBC.
I think the Guardian newspaper got some things wrong but I think that the BBC had more of a duty to get things right."