Retraction of Job Offer

crawley_girl

My friend has not been enjoying her job for some time and decided that she would be emotionally better off doing something else.

She sat tight in this job whilst looking around and found a part-time job, applied for it and got it.

All paperwork, references, contracts etc were sent out to her. She read, signed and returned and a start date agreed.

She then handed her notice into to job she wasn't enjoying.

She was phoned a few days prior to her start date and told that the job no longer exists. She was phoned by 'the manager' of whom my friend had never met. She didn't catch this person's name as it caught her unawares.

My question is this:

Should she be unable to find work straight away and need to claim JSA will she be able to? The reason I ask is because she handed her notice in to the job she is currently in.

She is actively looking for another job but is there anything she should do to protect herself? Like ask for a letter from the 'non-existant job' to confirm there was a job but isn't now?! Or anything else

PS She has considered trying to renegotiate her end date with existing job but decided that her health is more important.

Any advice?

Many thanks

:heartpuls CG :heartpuls

skater_kat

if she has documentation to prove she resigned in good faith she had other employment then she could get jsa. she should put a claim in and find out whilst she is looking for another job.

[Deleted User]

sue them for breach of contract?

dookar

34384 Claimants may have left employment because they had firm offers of other
employment to start at once. But such claimants may have to claim JSA because
1. the offers fell through unexpectedly or
2. the new employment did not last very long.
34385 Such claimants will have just cause for leaving unless
1. the offers were cancelled before they left their existing employment and
1.1 they could have stayed in their existing employment or
1.2 they did not ask their employer whether they could stay or
2. they changed their minds and decided not to take the new job and 1.1 or 1.2
applies.
34386 Sometimes claimants have left employment because they had firm offers of other
employment to start shortly, but not immediately. They may then claim JSA
because
1. they changed their original intention not to claim JSA during the interval or
2. the offer fell through and they are claiming JSA for longer than they expected.
They do not have just cause for leaving, because they left their original employment
before they needed to. But if claimants would have had just cause under DMG
34384 if the offers had been to start at once, the DM should limit the period of the
sanction to the length of the interval which the claimants originally thought would
occur between the employments. If this is less than one week, a sanction of one
week should be imposed

^the rules

prowla

woodbine wrote: »

sue them for breach of contract?

Nope that wouldn't work.