Please help my employer is mugging me and everyone off

ffacoffipawb

jfgc281 wrote: »

Hi I started work at a company called sacoma about 3 months ago after being un-employed for around 8 months, this is my first job and I did really bad at college leaving with no qualifications.

I was ecstatic to get the job on a scheme called 'Future Jobs Fund' whereby my employer doesn't even have to pay my wages they receive the money to pay me from DWP. The scheme says I should work at least 25 hours a week however my company won't pay me for any more, I am suposed to be mentored which I am not, I am suposed to receive training which I am not and this whole thing here is a shambles. There are many others here just like me being scammed.

However since working here I have been mistreated so much. I never have work to do and face a 5 hour day with nothing to do monday to thursday (friday I teach I.T at another centre for my company). My boss is always trying to think up ways to reduce our hours as the amount of money she receives doesn't differ each month so if our hours in the month are less then 100 she receives more money.

We all at this company are paid late or under paid and every month there is so much trouble trying to get it (my brother hasn't been paid from this place since January.

They also when they do have work for me to do make me do things that an Admin Assistant shouldn't do like handing out flyers and the place def isn't up to health and safety e.g the fire escape is bolted shut and they have now turned off the heating to save money.

The company also forces me to fraudulently use peoples data in order to get them certificates from a site called myguide.gov.uk as we receive funding for training people on this.

I just don't know what to do its my first job and its just all going wrong please help!!

Thanks everyone who reads and/or inputs to this thread.

That's shocking. Sorry I cannot be of any help though.

ffacoffipawb

satyc wrote: »

Was a labour government initiative to get 18 -24 year olds into work during the elections.

Tells me everything I need to know.

Fridge3

jfgc281 wrote: »

Hi I started work at a company called sacoma about 3 months ago after being un-employed for around 8 months, this is my first job and I did really bad at college leaving with no qualifications.

I was ecstatic to get the job on a scheme called 'Future Jobs Fund' whereby my employer doesn't even have to pay my wages they receive the money to pay me from DWP. The scheme says I should work at least 25 hours a week however my company won't pay me for any more, I am suposed to be mentored which I am not, I am suposed to receive training which I am not and this whole thing here is a shambles. There are many others here just like me being scammed.

However since working here I have been mistreated so much. I never have work to do and face a 5 hour day with nothing to do monday to thursday (friday I teach I.T at another centre for my company). My boss is always trying to think up ways to reduce our hours as the amount of money she receives doesn't differ each month so if our hours in the month are less then 100 she receives more money.

We all at this company are paid late or under paid and every month there is so much trouble trying to get it (my brother hasn't been paid from this place since January.

They also when they do have work for me to do make me do things that an Admin Assistant shouldn't do like handing out flyers and the place def isn't up to health and safety e.g the fire escape is bolted shut and they have now turned off the heating to save money.

The company also forces me to fraudulently use peoples data in order to get them certificates from a site called myguide.gov.uk as we receive funding for training people on this.

I just don't know what to do its my first job and its just all going wrong please help!!

Thanks everyone who reads and/or inputs to this thread.

Sacoma doesn't appear to be one of the 318 organisations approved to provide FJF jobs.

Mowgli87

Fridge3 wrote: »

Sacoma doesn't appear to be one of the 318 organisations approved to provide FJF jobs.

On their website they claim to be part of it...

My advice, leave and be without JSA for six months (rubbish advice) or stick with it, put up with it, and get some experience on your CV (again, rubbish advice, but cant think of much else)

Try ACAS?

Widelats

i can think of something i did against the jobcentre when a adviser was bullying me and trying to sanction me on false grounds several times, also was telling me i must go for jobs that start at 5am when the job itself said 8am, then she would set referrals in motion and say she had told me 8am and that it was my own fault, heres what ii did:

I got a sony ericson phone with a voice recorder on it, when i next had a interview with her i set the voice recorder going and kept the phone in my hand, recorded everything she said and when she referred me for sanctions yet again, i sent my copied voice recording to the appeals, i won the case outright and what happened to her was she was either immediately sacked or moved to another department, they did not tell me what happened to her.

You could do the same, set it up and say to your boss "these pieces of data are not genuine you are making me commit a fraud here" and go from there, if they then sack you, at least you have a recording of the conversation and that will go great in allowing you to claim JSA straight away, even better if your recording has video too. you will be shocked at how quick things start going well for you when you threaten court action, fraud is a police matter not a jobcentre matter.