Does jobcentre expect peeps to jobsearch on xmas day?

mro

marleyboy wrote: »

Sounds to me like some folk have had such a miserable Christmas, they will find just about anyone or anything to complain about on Christmas day. Some folk are sad, lonely individuals, pity them rather than feed them.

Happy Christmas to EVERYONE, no matter what your employment status.

Lots of miserable so and sos about, looking to blame somebody.

Kim_kim

dawyldthing wrote: »

Most people I know on £20k plus are either overworked ie teachers, doctors, nurses etc or stay in there jobs due to the money. I don't know many people who have the happy medium tbh

I'm on 20k plus (35k plus pension). I do work hard, but I really enjoy my job too.

Londonsu

mro wrote: »

Christmas Day is "Public Holiday"

JSA is not pay.

If you have agreed to work over Christmas, that's up to you and you are being paid "employment" pay with statutory employment rights.

Well actually it is, its money you get for performing a specific duty that of job seeking and as JSA is paid over 7 days then people should be job seeking for 7 days the only alternative is to tell the JC that you only want JSA from Monday to Friday and accept the reduced figure

melysion

I do rather think it's unreasonable to expect JSA recipients to do a job search on Christmas day. It's a benefit not a wage and people recieve it for applying for so many jobs per week from what I understand, and not necessarily job searching 7 days a week. Anyone who thinks otherwise is, with respect, bashing the unemployed for the sake of it. Unemployed people do deserve a Christmas the same as everyone else.

patanne

Just hoping I don't need to be nice to ALL newbies

mro

Londonsu wrote: »

Well actually it is, its money you get for performing a specific duty that of job seeking and as JSA is paid over 7 days then people should be job seeking for 7 days the only alternative is to tell the JC that you only want JSA from Monday to Friday and accept the reduced figure

It's been explained already, Christmas Day is a "Public Holiday".

JSA is not pay, it is subsistence benefit to cover basic living costs.

7 day, 24 hour, every minute, every second job seeking is not a requirement.

It is not based on your opinion, but on law, written guidance, case law & what is "reasonable".

suicidebob

Londonsu wrote: »

Well actually it is, its money you get for performing a specific duty that of job seeking and as JSA is paid over 7 days then people should be job seeking for 7 days the only alternative is to tell the JC that you only want JSA from Monday to Friday and accept the reduced figure

If you're so keen on the rules and laws of typical employment applying to JSA then maybe JSA needs to be paid at NMW?

No? Your logic doesn't extend that far? Now, there's a surprise.

Think your argument through before you spew it out your mouth.

suicidebob

Londonsu wrote: »

So its not normal to work for your money then? oh well I must be doing something wrong

I think you're probably doing many things wrong, one of which being your horrendous grammar and punctuation.

MABLE

brightonman123 wrote: »

I for one will be taking a couple days off, to recouperate. restart on Saturday..

Keep taking the tablets.:rotfl:

trollopscarletwoman

Well I never!

The impudence of the workshy in expecting to have Christmas day off from job seeking activity.

They will be expecting decent housing, decent health care, and a decent retirement next.