A wasted day thanks to Asda :(

liney

Was the advert in the Job Centre by any chance? If the employer ticks a box saying "likely to last over 3 months" (or a certain timeframe) the advert is deemed permanent.

If the work was only for 5 weeks, you could have "declared" it to the JC, and kept your claim going until the work ran out or became permanent. I think you have been a little short sighted to be honest.

pimento

This is true. My son applied online for a permanent position at Asda and when he arrived for the interview the whole group was informed it was Christmas Temp work.

He needs the money so he has taken the job. He's working 25 hours a week until Christmas Eve at 10pm when I will be driving from Essex to hampshire to pick him up and bring him home for Christmas. (He's a university student.)

They told him that after Christmas if anyone from the full-time staff quits, the temp workers will be considered first.

C'est la vie.

Peteo

Sounds like another example of poor quality management which is so rife in this country nowdays.

Unfortunately more and more of the least suitable people seem to be getting into managerial positions.

biggaz26

This is the problem in UK now..Should always take work over benefits.

I know its easy for me to say because I am working but I know I would!

At least now if the comments about IB are correct with regards to it not being means tested and being able to get a quick application in you'll know that if something like this happens again then you will be better of taking it.

Besides which it is always easier to get a new job when you have one than get one from being unemployed.

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pimento

biggaz26 wrote: »

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Besides which it is always easier to get a new job when you have one than get one from being unemployed.

Yep. I keep telling my son this. Jobs are like buses, you wait ages then two come along together.

Mind you, he's applied for 30 jobs in eight weeks, had two refusals and the other 28 ignored him. I'm glad that Asda could see his potential. I was starting to worry keeping him at university was going to be costing me dear.

1abyrinth

I have to agree with the opening thread it is misleading and totally unfair. I applied for a 12hr a week position at sainsubury;s even though it would mess up my benefits and I wouldn't be financially better off I still wanted the job because I thought once I got it I could boost my hours. After watching an hour long dvd and answering the questions I had an hour long interview only at the end did the interviewer inform me that my hours would not be 4hours per day over 3 days but infact it would be 39.5hours on the week before christmas when my daughter is off school. Complete waste of time for both of us and very annoying!!

MrsMalthouse

lilac_lady wrote: »

Sometimes a temporary job leads to a permanent one.

Yes that is true-but how can I take that risk when if I get laid off, I will have nothing to live on?

dmg24 wrote: »

IB is not means tested. Even for means tested benefits, a rapid reclaim takes no time at all. It is pretty sad that you would choose benefits over going out to work.

I don't know what the first part of your comment means as when I went into the Job Centre to ask them for help looking for work, they refused to help me as it's not ME claiming the benefit-it's my husband claiming for me so it's like I don't exist to them.

liney wrote: »

Was the advert in the Job Centre by any chance? If the employer ticks a box saying "likely to last over 3 months" (or a certain timeframe) the advert is deemed permanent.

If the work was only for 5 weeks, you could have "declared" it to the JC, and kept your claim going until the work ran out or became permanent. I think you have been a little short sighted to be honest.

The advert was on Asda's website-not the Job Centre. I don't understand how you can continue an Incapacity claim for 5 weeks just by telling them. From what I have researched, I'm allowed to earn £20 a week before it is taken out of my husband's money?

Thanks for your comments. :)As for comments like 'shame on you', I don't feel that they are very helpful at all and don't really appreciate it. I don't WANT to be on benefits at all-I'm trying my best but I can't put us in a WORSE position as I have kids to feed! Please understand this and advise me if you can as that is what this board is for is it not?

olias

To the OP, I understand where you are coming from. To the other (negative) posters, I will try to explain as I have been in a similar position.

I recently took on temp work and in doing so I had to come off certain benefits. When the work finished I had to re-apply from scratch for those benefits. This took the best part of two months to be re-instated. Although the benefits were backdated to when I finished work, in the intervening two months I got nothing. Now luckily I had savings to tide me over, but a lot of people on benefits don't and live virtually hand to mouth with a very tight budget, so how are they supposed to live in the interim? It's not called the benefits trap for nothing!

Olias

MrsMalthouse

olias wrote: »

To the OP, I understand where you are coming from. To the other (negative) posters, I will try to explain as I have been in a similar position.

I recently took on temp work and in doing so I had to come off certain benefits. When the work finished I had to re-apply from scratch for those benefits. This took the best part of two months to be re-instated. Although the benefits were backdated to when I finished work, in the intervening two months I got nothing. Now luckily I had savings to tide me over, but a lot of people on benefits don't and live virtually hand to mouth with a very tight budget, so how are they supposed to live in the interim? It's not called the benefits trap for nothing!

Olias

That really is the case for me. I couldn't risk taking the job on the off-chance that I got a 'proper' job at the end of it because I'd be up the creek without a paddle if that didn't happen. We have no savings as the few hundred pounds I'd managed to get together have been used on my son's expenses whilst we wait for DLA for him IYSWIM?

Chloboshoka_2

I would have gone for it anyway.