Channel 4 report fake jobs?

SaveMeDo

Fraud seems to be rife in the workfare industry

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2551242/Four-former-staff-scandal-hit-dole-jobs-firm-A4E-admit-swindling-taxpayers.html

Four former employees of scandal-hit welfare-to-work firm A4E admitted swindling taxpayers yesterday.
The guilty pleas follow a police investigation into the troubled company which is paid more than £200m by the Government each year.
Julie Grimes, 50, Aditi Singh, 30, Bindiya Dholiwar, 27, and Dean Lloyd, 36, admitted dozens of offences of fraud and forgery.


All four were arrested after the Daily Mail revealed concerns about taxpayer-funded employment schemes run by A4E two years ago.
The company was employed by the Department for Work and Pensions to deliver an employment and training scheme called 'Inspire to Aspire'.
It pocketed huge sums from the public purse for getting people off benefits by delivering training and helping people to find work.

But Whitehall officials called in police over concerns that staff were billing taxpayers for 'successful' work that was not carried out or for non-existent clients.
A whistleblower claimed forged signatures and blank timesheets were 'routine' techniques used for bumping up the numbers of successful job placements.
The four former A4E recruiters admitted a total of 32 offences during a hearing at Reading Crown Court yesterday.




Grimes, of Staines, admitted nine charges of forgery. Singh, of Slough, who is seven months pregnant, admitted two counts of forgery and one of fraud.
Dholiwar, of Slough, admitted seven counts of forgery. Lloyd, of Milton Keynes, admitted 13 offences of forgery.
A fifth former employee was stranded overseas by poor weather and her barrister indicated that she too intended to plead guilty at a special hearing next week.
All the offences took place between over four years until February 2013. No date has been set for the former employees to be sentenced. They each face up to 10 years in prison.
The A4E controversy began in February 2012 when it was revealed that its founder Emma Harrison had paid herself £8.6 million.
Damaging allegations followed that workers at the firm were inappropriately claiming 'success' fees, sometimes for individuals who worked for no more than 24 hours.
Officers from Thames Valley Police's economic crime unit searched its headquarters in Slough, Berkshire, as politicians called for a full inquiry.
The furore forced Mrs Harrison, worth an estimated £70million, to step down as chairman and resign from her role as David Cameron's 'back to work tsar'.
Mrs Harrison remains the majority shareholder after building up the company, formerly called Action For Employment, into an operation spanning 11 countries.
Her boasts that she can find jobs for the long-term unemployed have won her a string of lucrative Whitehall contracts over the past 20 years.
A4e is one of several contractors which earn payments for helping the out-of-work find a job. Half of its work is subcontracted to charities, generating millions in management fees.
A further eight former A4E employees, aged between 25 and 43, are expected to go on trial in October accused of fraud.

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Isn't it about time all these crazy money making scams were banned by our wonderful Parliamentarians?

ableandy

I am a registered employer on the UJM web site - all well and good. However, I am assisting another company at the moment to recruit drivers and did not want my own company being linked to them (my company is assisting this other company behind the scenes), so I went into my account and was able to change every part of my company profile including company name, address and all contact addresses / telephones.

I would have thought I would be contacted to make sure everything was legitimate, but no the jobs were posted and I have received applications.

Firetastic

Last night I posted about BodhiMoney. I notice today they have disappeared.

The_ICT_Engineer

SaveMeDo wrote: »

Isn't it about time all these crazy money making scams were banned by our wonderful Parliamentarians?

What and lose all them stuffed brown envelopes that they been getting.

krok

I noticed today on ujm that they have put a lot of new rules and disclaimers on their site and a new part that you can now write a covering letter to be posted with your cv to all those bogus jobs.

pompeyrich

Taken from the article in post 1; "More than 11,000 positions currently advertised on the government's Universal Jobmatch website may be bogus, an investigation by Channel 4 News has found.
The jobs, which range from sous chefs to dry cleaners, account for almost one in 50 of all those posted in Britain"


So less than 2% of jobs advertised on the universal jobsearch site might not be genuine. Not exactly a major scam is it?

SaveMeDo

Taken from the article in post 1; "More than 11,000 positions currently advertised on the government's Universal Jobmatch website may be bogus, an investigation by Channel 4 News has found.
The jobs, which range from sous chefs to dry cleaners, account for almost one in 50 of all those posted in Britain"


So less than 2% of jobs advertised on the universal jobsearch site might not be genuine. Not exactly a major scam is it?

That is just this one guy!

How many others are doing the same thing?

eyelinerprincess

UJM is a joke. I've just searched my town. Out of 25 on the first page, SEVEN of them are real jobs. All the rest are "self employed" and majority are catalogue distribution.

brightonman123

https://twitter.com/davesmith40uk

This guy has been checking into 'jobs', that turn out to be Kleeneze spammers.. worth a read.

AP007

patman99 wrote: »

The biggest laugh is that one of the biggest spammers of UJM is CV-Library itself. They use an auto-lister to put the same jobs on UJM every day.
I have a feeling that they, along with Monster & Adzuna use affiliate systems to cross-list each others jobs as well.
It does seem funny that the 3 sites all list exactly the same job.

As for fake jobs, why do C4 not go after the Agencies who quite openly list jobs that do not exist?. Several of the Agencies I am registered with with advertise a genuine job, but will leave the job as live for up to a year after it has been filled.

ADZUNA have been reported by me a number of times as they were allowed to advertise ALL jobs without the permission of the original advertiser and list ALL jobs at SW1A 1AA which is Buckingham Palace!!

The UJM's reply was that there was a fault with the job listing

ADZUNA say they can list what they like under the SW1 postcode and you don't have to apply for it

My reply to that was that they are misleading genuine people looking for work in the UK and if for example a job was in, Manchester no one would find it as it's listing as London