"There wasn't, you know, mandatory work here on the weekend.
"I didn't take part in the Mandatory Work Activity scheme.
Mandatory work experience also needs to be reinstated," Donnelly says.
Now, he's on a mandatory work placement, breaking up furniture.
Meanwhile, the UK Government's mandatory "work experience" has just unravelled in the High Court.
The firm will receive an £800 bonus for every unemployed claimant it places in mandatory work.
However, between May and November 2011, 24,010 people were referred to Mandatory Work Activity.
The DWP made clear that mandatory work placement schemes last four weeks rather than eight.
Forced unpaid work still continues in the form of the mandatory work activity and community activity programme.
The Department for Work and Pensions today published an impact assessment of the Mandatory Work Activity (MWA) programme.
"The audits for the work programme, the new enterprise allowance programme and mandatory work activity are now complete.
