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Up the shirkers

If you’re busy setting up spoof webcams to avoid work, you’ll be delighted that the Department of Work and Pensions is sticking up for your rights to be indolent.
When Beryl King, who runs an employment agency in Totton, Hants, wanted to advertise in her local Jobcentre for warehouse workers last week, she asked for ‘hard-working and reliable’ staff. But the Jobcentre wouldn’t let her, saying that the advert discriminated against people who are not industrious.

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