{"id":33254,"date":"2013-10-30T10:01:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-30T10:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=1dfb3394eaaa60c5075a692b9f1d46aa"},"modified":"2013-10-30T10:01:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-30T10:01:00","slug":"government-response-supreme-court-verdict-on-government-employment-schemes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=33254","title":{"rendered":"Government response: Supreme Court verdict on government employment schemes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Responding to today\u2019s (30 October 2013) Supreme Court verdict on government employment schemes Secretary of State Iain Duncan Smith said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We are very pleased that the Supreme Court today unanimously upheld our right to require those claiming Jobseeker\u2019s Allowance to take part in programmes which will help get them into work.<\/p>\n<p>We have always said that it was ridiculous to claim that our schemes amounted to forced labour, and yet again we have won this argument.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Ultimately this judgment confirms that it is right that we expect people to take getting into work seriously if they want to claim benefits.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government&#8217;s response to the Supreme Court verdict on government employment schemes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33254"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}