Work Programme

Gargleblaster

claire16c wrote: »

but surely you could leave it if you found another job?

You don't leave the programme as such because even if you get a job the provider will still check up on you and your employer as they don't get fully paid until someone has been in work for 2 years.

When I started the work programme last month I had to sign a waver giving them permission to contact my future employers so they can discuss my performance.

looby75

Gargleblaster wrote: »

You don't leave the programme as such because even if you get a job the provider will still check up on you and your employer as they don't get fully paid until someone has been in work for 2 years.

When I started the work programme last month I had to sign a waver giving them permission to contact my future employers so they can discuss my performance.

Thats a horrible invasion of privacy!

scooby088

I doubt that i would sign anything to let a provider to contact my employer as i see it as a gross invasion of my privacy and i really don't care if the provider does get anymore money from the government. Now i dont mind them contacting me but any future employer i would have a problem with. But what would happen if i didn't sign it giving them the permission.

palna

So i went into jobcentre today and said i want to be fast tracked, the guy at recption said come back on monday the work programe starts then, so then i phoned the jobcentre and the man said all being well someone will get back tot you today, of course they didnt.

i also phoned the provder up who said its all very started in June and they dont know what the job centre are talking about.

will be back on monday.

LadyMissA

Gargleblaster wrote: »

You don't leave the programme as such because even if you get a job the provider will still check up on you and your employer as they don't get fully paid until someone has been in work for 2 years.

When I started the work programme last month I had to sign a waver giving them permission to contact my future employers so they can discuss my performance.

you had to sign it? What if you didnt? What employer will actually like a 3rd party calling them to talk an employee that they (the provider) may have nothing to do with if you get your own job?

What if an agency gets you the interview at a job and you get it. I am sure there is no way an egency will like a provider calling THEIR client to check up on staff!!

donnajunkie

LadyMissA wrote: »

you had to sign it? What if you didnt? What employer will actually like a 3rd party calling them to talk an employee that they (the provider) may have nothing to do with if you get your own job?

What if an agency gets you the interview at a job and you get it. I am sure there is no way an egency will like a provider calling THEIR client to check up on staff!!

isnt the fact that you wont have given your employer permission to share details about you with the provider an issue as well? a decent employer should just say to them we arent allowed to give out information about past or present employees, goodbye.

claire16c

Gargleblaster wrote: »

You don't leave the programme as such because even if you get a job the provider will still check up on you and your employer as they don't get fully paid until someone has been in work for 2 years.

When I started the work programme last month I had to sign a waver giving them permission to contact my future employers so they can discuss my performance.

I meant you could leave 'any old' job that people thought they were going to be made to do, not the work programme.

so if they made you do a job you didnt like, there is nothing stopping you from continuing to look for something else.

LadyMissA

donnajunkie wrote: »

isnt the fact that you wont have given your employer permission to share details about you with the provider an issue as well? a decent employer should just say to them we arent allowed to give out information about past or present employees, goodbye.

You mean the employer must give consent to be contacted by the 'provider' not me saying its ok for them to do so.

Agencies I am sure will not be happy in a 3rd party calling their clients, normally the consultant calls you at work in th 1st week and a few weeks later just to see how you are getting on and that's to protect their comission and see that you are settling in. I see no baring on that at all with the provider getting involved. It will just create problems.

donnajunkie

LadyMissA wrote: »

You mean the employer must give consent to be contacted by the 'provider' not me saying its ok for them to do so.

no, i mean giving the provider permission to contact the employer doesnt give the employer permission to give out information about you. of course legally permission might not be needed. however a decent employer should say sorry i dont give out information about past or present employees without their permission.

LadyMissA

donnajunkie wrote: »

no, i mean giving the provider permission to contact the employer doesnt give the employer permission to give out information about you. of course legally permission might not be needed. however a decent employer should say sorry i dont give out information about past or present employees without their permission.

but surely it will only be how are they doing and have they turned up etc? I do not know any company who would speak to a 3rd party