ive resigned from work

bigmacman

ive just resigned from my job as i was told to leave or get the sack is there any benifits i can claim at all as i dont think i can claim jobseekers for a while can i.

anyhelp would be great
many thanks
bigmac

JayJay14

Sign on and explain, it will depend on why they were planning on sacking you.

My DD left her job after weeks of being told she wasn't good enough and they were going to finish her but didn't. She used to come home in tears every night. We thought that they wouldn't give her jobseekers for 6 months so she didnit sign on straight away. As it was when she did sign on they allowed her the money and she could have been getting it for the 7 weeks she waited, so don't wait you may be lucky.

bigmacman

yeah i think i will try it basically to cut a long story short
i got the sack from a previous employer for stealing from them
(not to be moment in life)
found this new job b4 i was charged by police and was advised by a charity company to tell them after the court hearing.
so i did that yesterday telling them im on tag and wouldnt be able to do nights

they said today either leave or be sacked but they have offered me a reference as i was agood worker.

SarEl

You lost your job as a result of dishonesty in a previous job (which if they had known about they would have very likely have never employed you); and incapacity on the basis that you were unable to do the job that they actually employed you to do because of the terms of your conviction - an incapacity caused by your own dishonest actions. I sincerely doubt that the JobCentre are going to find that a convincing reason to give you benefits - you lost the job through your own actions. You are fortunate indeed that the employer is willing to give you a good reference - most wouldn't.

bigmacman

i think its because they know the ins and outs of what happened and i did a bloody good job there tbh.
i asked a question not a opionion onwhat i did.
havent you heard of people that change there lives
since i did what i did i do 2 volunteering jobs i have been accepted into college full time and i had that job and they said if i been honest with them from the start i could of probally did that job still.

any1 with any advice and not there opionion on my actions feel free to comment

DVardysShadow

SarEl wrote: »

You lost your job as a result of dishonesty in a previous job (which if they had known about they would have very likely have never employed you); and incapacity on the basis that you were unable to do the job that they actually employed you to do because of the terms of your conviction - an incapacity caused by your own dishonest actions. I sincerely doubt that the JobCentre are going to find that a convincing reason to give you benefits - you lost the job through your own actions. You are fortunate indeed that the employer is willing to give you a good reference - most wouldn't.

Hmm. I feel bigmacman's lawyers - or the state have failed him here. Tagging as an alternative punishment to prison does have its place. But bigmacman has effectively been punished by being made unemployed. I think that the court have treated him wrongly and the tagging order should not have prejudiced his employment. That is not to say that I believe that his employers should be obliged to keep him on.

For most people tagging of itself would not cause them to lose their jobs, but I believe that the defence lawyer and the court should be ascertaining whether for each tagee their working hours are an issue.

jax66

can't they change the times of restriction on tag if it's proven the person would be working they hours?

SarEl

bigmacman wrote: »

i think its because they know the ins and outs of what happened and i did a bloody good job there tbh.
i asked a question not a opionion onwhat i did.
havent you heard of people that change there lives
since i did what i did i do 2 volunteering jobs i have been accepted into college full time and i had that job and they said if i been honest with them from the start i could of probally did that job still.

any1 with any advice and not there opionion on my actions feel free to comment

If you post on a public board you get whatever you get. And for your information I have heard that people can change their lives and that is what the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act is for. But you have just now been convicted - a "turning around" of your life takes a bit more commitment than a few months good behaviour and a bit of volunteering, and if you don't like the fact that some people might expect just a tad more evidence that you've changed then tough luck.

And as for the criticism of the defence team and the court - the OP stole from his employer - so what adjustment exactly in terms of the tagging order do you think could have been made to prevent him re-offending? If he had been honest with his employer then maybe they might have been willing to make representations to the court. But he will never know that because they weren't told the truth about his employment past - and weren't given an option on deciding for themselves whether they wanted to employ someone who has stolen from their empolyer very recently. Because when they asked him for his employment history on the application he said what exactly - I was sacked because I had stolen something from them and I'm waiting to be charged?

This is down to the OP, and if he wants to feel sorry for himself because he is having to face up to the consequences of his own actions, then he hasn't really got a grip on real life. And as for the last employer - one is assuming that they were more honest than the OP, because it's the easiest thing in the world to say anything you like about good references etc., and heave a huge sigh of relief after he's out the door, then go check he hasn't stolen anything from them!

dmg24

bigmacman wrote: »

i think its because they know the ins and outs of what happened and i did a bloody good job there tbh.
i asked a question not a opionion onwhat i did.
havent you heard of people that change there lives
since i did what i did i do 2 volunteering jobs i have been accepted into college full time and i had that job and they said if i been honest with them from the start i could of probally did that job still.

any1 with any advice and not there opionion on my actions feel free to comment

When are you going to college? You will not be eligible for JSA whilst studying full time.

Fang_3

bigmacman wrote: »

i think its because they know the ins and outs of what happened and i did a bloody good job there tbh.
i asked a question not a opionion onwhat i did.
havent you heard of people that change there lives
since i did what i did i do 2 volunteering jobs i have been accepted into college full time and i had that job and they said if i been honest with them from the start i could of probally did that job still.

any1 with any advice and not there opionion on my actions feel free to comment

He gave facts, not opinion on what you did. You just aren't happy that people have the measure of you. I absolutely cannot abide thieves.

Fang_3

dmg24 wrote: »

When are you going to college? You will not be eligible for JSA whilst studying full time.

He also may not be able to claim anything while he has a college place, because he won't be able to accept a permanent job.