Rejected petition Make unpaid trial shifts illegal.

Employers use trial shifts as a way to see if a new employee would like to work for the company, however, employers can use this to their advantage and get slave labour from an individual for a 7 hour shift unpaid. It shouldn’t be allowed to happen. Trial shifts should be paid.

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Make unpaid trial shifts illegal. It is slave labour that someone has to partake in unpaid work in order to be offered a job at a facility they applied for. There is a reason that probation periods exist.
If companies want trial shifts, they have to pay the individual. There needs to be a law that enforces this.

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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/550276

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Date submitted 24 November 2020
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