Jobcentres send you 90 miles for job?

NASA_2

The workshy class.

eskimo26

90 miles is very roughly how long time wise? I don't drive so i have no idea. What is the equivalent train journey we talking manchester to london proportions or edinburgh to london...?

Fiddlestick

2sides2everystory wrote: »

Mrs Tittlemouse, your husband doesn't do that journey for a minimum wage, does he now?

I was a student when I did it, so I didn't even have a wage!

dave4545454

MRSTITTLEMOUSE wrote: »

My husband travels 57 miles there and 57 miles back to work every day.
Its not as if hes a youngster either he's turned 60 now and has had to do this for the past ten years.

poor guy, it can't leave him much money left from his mininum wage after he's paid for all that travel full credit to your husband for giving his company that commitment.

dookar

roy_harper wrote: »

Is this right?

Are Jobcentres seriously being told to offer clients jobs 45 miles there and 45 back in day.

Tot up the cost of travel, rent/mortgage and deduct that from minimum wage!

And if you don't go for interview, at your own expense from JSA - you get your JSA stopped anyway.
:eek:

Where did you hear this? You should really quote your source

Anyways, the law doesn't have limits - neither minimum nor maximum. Looking for retail in a city centre? maybe 30 minutes is reasonable. Living out in the sticks and wanting software development work? Maybe 3 hours is reasonable.

No hard and fast rules

jamespir

to be fair if theres no jobs near you then you should start looking further afield

NeverEnough

marywooyeah wrote: »

thats just ridiculous, there's no way that is a feasible commute!

Many, many people commute that far and others further still in order to keep themselves in work, rather than look for reasons not to work! It is a perfectly acceptable commute!!

2sides2everystory

NASA wrote: »

The workshy class.

v. the t|ts and twerps, you mean?

I am sick of the absolutely stupid comments by self-righteous people on here who are obviously very comfortable with their lot compared to the unemployed, be they the blissfully ignorant several years retired types or employees of the still cosseted public sector. You haven't a clue what it is like for people who have to visit Job Centres in 2011. Not a flaming clue.

chris1973

No offense, but on the flip side, the fact remains that there are some people out there in the world who have travelled across Europe to find work leaving their homes and families and using their 'life savings' to do it. Taking risks and venturing into a country they know little or nothing about, and may never even have visited, purely to work and seek a better life for themselves.

Often they can be found doing the Jobs most people dont want to travel 90 miles to do

Oldernotwiser

2sides2everystory wrote: »

. You haven't a clue what it is like for people who have to visit Job Centres in 2011. Not a flaming clue.

Perhaps because they're prepared to commute to work and don't expect to get a job round the corner from where they live?