Toblerone shape not distinctive enough for trademark, Poundland claims Read more“Considering it is supposed to be work experience you’d think they would teach you how to work the till. But we have just been stacking shelves all day,” one person on the scheme told the Guardian. All the participants contacted by the Guardian said they had been told they needed to do work experience by a “work coach” at their local jobcentre. “This is not work experience, this is work – and Poundland should pay for it,” said Tanya de Grunwald of the Graduate Fog website, which first revealed the existence of the Poundland work experience scheme. It said a number of work experience workers had been given a permanent job, but could not say exactly how many.

Source: The Guardian August 30, 2017 10:30 UTC