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<p>The Government regularly speaks to stakeholders including trade unions, on a wide
range of employment issues. If someone has undertaken an unpaid work trial and thinks
they should have been paid NMW, they can call the ACAS helpline or use the online
helpline tool for free, confidential advice about their rights and entitlements. If
they want to make a complaint through HMRC, they can do so in complete confidence.</p><p>
</p><p>Unpaid work trials that are exploitative are already against the law. When
recruiting, an employer can ask an individual to carry out a short unpaid work trial
to demonstrate that they have the skills required for the job. But if a work trial
is excessively long, or not part of a genuine recruitment purpose, employers must
pay participants at least the legal minimum wage.</p>
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