Working links partner

Captain_Obvious

Morning all!

I don't know if this is in the right place for this subject but I'll tell you the story:

I was at the working links partner yesterday applying for jobs. I got a phone call about a job in erskine which is about an hour away by public transport. One of the bosses down there heard me declining an interview as it was too far away and now i think they might be sanctioning my JSA for it. I wanna know how to complain about this as I feel any impending sanctions would be unjustified.

Please Advise.
thanks, Captain_Obvious.

saintjammyswine

Depending on how long you have been on JSA you can be expected to travel 90 minutes each way so potentially you could be sanctioned. The evidence will go to an independant panel to assess and decide whether sanctions are applicable and they take both sides into account.

Captain_Obvious

even though to be there for the 2nd week of training which starts at 7:15am and it would take 1:55mins to just get there? not to mention travelling costs on £6.08 per hour?(I should've mentioned this in the OP.)

saintjammyswine

Depends how much you want a job?
Speak to JCP advisor about help in returning to work and travel costs, if you are keen they may be able to help. If you go there trying to find problems then they probably wont and may sanction you.

Captain_Obvious

Very true.

Captain_Obvious

I'm not looking for problems tbh, I just think that "would they do it for a four week job on NMW" then they wouldn't be so awkward.

Oldernotwiser

There's two weeks of training for a four week temporary job?

Captain_Obvious

thats what she told me on the phone.

DebiT

Captain_Obvious wrote: »

Morning all!

I don't know if this is in the right place for this subject but I'll tell you the story:

I was at the working links partner yesterday applying for jobs. I got a phone call about a job in erskine which is about an hour away by public transport. One of the bosses down there heard me declining an interview as it was too far away and now i think they might be sanctioning my JSA for it. I wanna know how to complain about this as I feel any impending sanctions would be unjustified.

Please Advise.
thanks, Captain_Obvious.

First of all, they shouldnt be listening in on private telephone conversations. If they can hear, then anyone in the room can know you business.

efesbaby

It really depends on what it says on your JS agreement- if it says dependant on public transport, and you can prove that the transport would not be able to get you there on time, then the sanction would not be approved. If it is the work programme you are on, then its benefical for the advisor to help you get sustainable work and a 4 week job isnt going to be that. So the chances are if a sanction was put in, it would be refused.
as for compaining if W links are the main contractor you cna complain via their complaints procedure, if you have had an induction the procedure should be in the documents you received.

SarEl

DebiT wrote: »

First of all, they shouldnt be listening in on private telephone conversations. If they can hear, then anyone in the room can know you business.

Perhaps people shouldn't be making private phone calls in public places then? It is often damned hard not to hear what latest row Aunt Dolly has been involved in, the results of your cousin Kitty's medical scan, or, when Tommy's interview might be, when people insist on making mobile phone calls in the middle of the aisle at Sainsbury's (usually blocking the entire aisle in the process), or the centre of a public office, or the doctors waiting room. If people want to have private conversations, then they should be having them in private places - or is that too obvious?