Universal Job Match at http://jobseekers.direct.gov.uk

Jerry_Mander

AP007 wrote: »

I have been signing on for 2.5 years now

The 35 hour job search requirement is the least of your worries then because you'll soon be doing permanent workfare (i.e. working 30 hours a week for nothing), that only leaves you 5 hours to make up in job searching.

AP007

Jerry_Mander wrote: »

They'll do random checks just like they always have done (obviously they can't check everyone's), only now they'll be looking at it in more detail.

They barely have time to sign people at my JC but I wish them all the best of luck with that as they can not contact employers that you have sourced on your own and you do not have to log into your Reed account or call and agency to prove you have applied. I cant see the data protection act working with them when they call up a company and say AP applied for this role can you confirm that? Get lost could be the answer there.

AP007

Jerry_Mander wrote: »

The 35 hour job search requirement is the least of your worries then because you'll soon be doing permanent workfare (i.e. working 30 hours a week for nothing), that only leaves you 5 hours to make up in job searching.

No I wont I am on the WP.

Where are you getting your info from? LOL

Jerry_Mander

john539 wrote: »

I'd calm down.

It will be as big a problem for JC advisors as the customers/jobseekers and the unions won't stand for it, just like with UJM, lots of hot air before the crazy draconian big brother ideas gradually melt away.

I'm perfectly calm thank you. :rotfl:

But I see we have a dreamer in the house who still believes the unions have any power...poor deluded chap.

Is that the UJ that is to be made mandatory this year (1st March if rumours are to be believed)?

krok

Jerry_Mander wrote: »

The 35 hour job search requirement is the least of your worries then because you'll soon be doing permanent workfare (i.e. working 30 hours a week for nothing), that only leaves you 5 hours to make up in job searching.

You are really talking a load of cr!p. you dont know anything. You are just another scaremonger.

None of what you said will happen. Look when you all said that UJM would be mandatory. Even IDS said it would be, but it hasnt happened and we are nearly into March.

Jerry_Mander

AP007 wrote: »

No I wont I am on the WP.

Where are you getting your info from? LOL

When you finish the Work Programme you'll be put straight onto CAP (Community Action Programme) for six months unpaid full time work then.

AP007

Jerry_Mander wrote: »

When you finish the Work Programme you'll be put straight onto CAP (Community Action Programme) for six months unpaid full time work then.

Says who????? Where are these JOBS coming from? LOL

krok

Jerry_Mander wrote: »

I'm perfectly calm thank you. :rotfl:

But I see we have a dreamer in the house who still believes the unions have any power...poor deluded chap.

Is that the UJ that is to be made mandatory this year (1st March if rumours are to be believed)?

Now i know you are full of craap.

john539

Jerry_Mander wrote: »

I'm perfectly calm thank you. :rotfl:

But I see we have a dreamer in the house who still believes the unions have any power...poor deluded chap.

Is that the UJ that is to be made mandatory this year (1st March if rumours are to be believed)?

It may become mandatory, who knows.

IDS said that months ago.

But unions have issued guidance to staff to stop managers pressurising JC advisors into saying UJM was mandatory before, that people should give access and other lies etc.

And again when other crazy ideas come in like 35 hour job search, unions will step in to stop advisors being asked to do an impossible task.

ditzyat50

Jerry_Mander wrote: »

They don't have to check up on you directly, you just have to prove that you're doing 35 hours of job related activity each week. But they will insist on proof of that amount of job search and if you don't give them access to, for example, Universal Jobmatch ( I wouldn't) then you'll have to take in sheets of printouts etc. showing jobs applied for and so on.

I haven't read all this thread, but is that really right? 35 hours a week? Personally I already think the JSA agreement I was pressurized into signing was unrealistic and now it sounds like things are getting really crazy. As it is, I have signed up to their new job match, but expressed my preference to the previous site to my personal adviser, and gave valid reasons, (by the look on his face, I think I was not the first person to air my grievances). Meantime I play by their rules because they put money into my bank account and at the end of the day it all boils down to money to pay the bills. On a lighter note, I would like to mention that I think my adviser is a great down to earth guy and really helpful. He has got me on the latest course to give me tips and advice. (Didn't want to sound ungrateful, but didn't think I needed to go). Anyway it's only for a week and if I keep my receipts I get reimbursed and hey I may actually learn something..... still reeling over 35 hours a week?? No. It can't be right? Can it?