Work Programme

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dmliverpool

scooby088 wrote: »

What i have noticed is that the providers are nearly all the same nationwide, and a few employment agencies are there too, how can they give the provider a cash bonus when the customer gets a job. When a customer gets a job is there a specific amount of time he/she needs to keep the job before the provider gets the last payment.

Also i have heard that providers will still be in contact with customers when they have got a job too, which really would nark me as i have signed off and would be entitled to tell them to get lost.

Yes that's part of the deal and they will make contact with your employer about it too.

donnajunkie

dmliverpool wrote: »

Yes that's part of the deal and they will make contact with your employer about it too.

what would happen if someone got a job and just signed off without telling the provider?

dark_lady

donnajunkie wrote: »

what would happen if someone got a job and just signed off without telling the provider?

What would happen if the employer got fed up with the hassle and withdrew the job offer or terminated employment.
Would you then be able to sue the provider for losing you the job.
Loss of earnings etc.

LadyMissA

dark_lady wrote: »

What would happen if the employer got fed up with the hassle and withdrew the job offer or terminated employment.
Would you then be able to sue the provider for losing you the job.
Loss of earnings etc.

sounds like they will be checking up on you and i know my last boss wouldnt have appreciated the calls and constant checks

claire16c

EleanorRig wrote: »

I attended the work programme last week and it was an utter waste of time.
I have already been offered a job in a school which doesn't start until September, the advisor didn't know what the hell to do with me and her manager was more concerned to not be seeing as giving me 'training' on how to search for a job because they can get fined, apparently.
So, after umming and ahhing, they said I need to come back in a fortnight but wasn't sure what they could do during the interview, until I suggested they work out my tax credits for when I do go back to work (which I've already done myself)
All in all a waste of my time, theirs and money (which they will get paid for the job that I found myself)

Isnt the whole point that they are supposed to train you to find a job?

Seems like in a lot of peoples cases the person going in (such as yourself) knows more than they do!

donnajunkie

LadyMissA wrote: »

sounds like they will be checking up on you and i know my last boss wouldnt have appreciated the calls and constant checks

they cant do that if you find the job yourself and you dont tell the provider who your employer is.

LadyMissA

donnajunkie wrote: »

they cant do that if you find the job yourself and you dont tell the provider who your employer is.

aren't you meant to tell them then? Or you just go to the job centre to sign off and they are the only ones that know?

donnajunkie

LadyMissA wrote: »

aren't you meant to tell them then? Or you just go to the job centre to sign off and they are the only ones that know?

well thats what i was asking. i asked what would happen if you got a job and didnt tell the provider and instead just signed off. personally i dont mind them taking credit for it if they got the job for me but if i got it myself i wouldnt want to help them take credit by telling them about it unless i had to.

rhcp

LadyMissA wrote: »

aren't you meant to tell them then? Or you just go to the job centre to sign off and they are the only ones that know?

As long as the jobcentre know, that's all that matters.