Job offer withdrawn - what now

Choosiesusie

My daughter has had a 30 hour contract with a large retail shop for three years and has been looking for full time employment. A month ago she had an interview and was offered a full time job. She had to give one month's notice to old job, which she did. On the last day of her notice the full time job offer was withdrawn due to changes and targets not being met at the office she was to be employed at. The retail shop she works in could not give her her job back . Now she is devastated and unemployed. She had signed a contract with her 'new' job which stated in the 1st four weeks of employment one weeks notice is required by employee or employer. They have said they will be sending her one weeks pay. Is this all she is entitled too? Will she be able to sign on? It's disgusting that she has been treated in this way. I don't hold blame with her old employer just her new one.

xapprenticex

She will be able to sign on, your daughter has basically suffered the very worse case scenario when getting a new job. Hopefully it wont happen again.

Have a look: https://www.gov.uk/job-offers-your-rights

TELLIT01

Unfortunately she's actually lucky to have been given 1 week's pay by the new employer as she hadn't actually started there. It does at least show a level of responsibility on their part. She will be able to sign on.

paddyrg

On the plus side, at least she's not working for such an unreliable company :-$

ScorpiondeRooftrouser

TELLIT01 wrote: »

Unfortunately she's actually lucky to have been given 1 week's pay by the new employer as she hadn't actually started there. It does at least show a level of responsibility on their part. She will be able to sign on.

She had signed a contract agreeing employment from a start date with a week's notice required to end it. They contractually had to pay her from that start date and in effect give her notice on the first day. They could, theoretically, have asked her to come in for the week but that would have been nonsensical. They've done nothing past the bare minimum here.

Undervalued

Choosiesusie wrote: »

They have said they will be sending her one weeks pay. Is this all she is entitled too? Will she be able to sign on? It's disgusting that she has been treated in this way. I don't hold blame with her old employer just her new one.

The answers to your questions are yes and yes.

Apart from in the rarest of circumstances, which are most unlikely to apply here, she is entitled to nothing more than the contractual notice.

But for the contractual provision she wouldn't have been entitled to anything as statutory notice is zero during the first month of employment.

TELLIT01

ScorpiondeRooftrouser wrote: »

She had signed a contract agreeing employment from a start date with a week's notice required to end it. They contractually had to pay her from that start date and in effect give her notice on the first day. They could, theoretically, have asked her to come in for the week but that would have been nonsensical. They've done nothing past the bare minimum here.

I'm not disputing any of that, but not all employers and potential employers play it by the book. If they did there wouldn't be half the questions there are on this board.

ScorpiondeRooftrouser

TELLIT01 wrote: »

I'm not disputing any of that, but not all employers and potential employers play it by the book. If they did there wouldn't be half the questions there are on this board.

They didn't hit her over the head and take her watch either, but I don't think she should think herself lucky because of that.

Takeaway_Addict

ScorpiondeRooftrouser wrote: »

They didn't hit her over the head and take her watch either, but I don't think she should think herself lucky because of that.

Techincally she hadn't started working for the new employer so would the contract stand legally?

ashleypride

Takeaway_Addict wrote: »

Techincally she hadn't started working for the new employer so would the contract stand legally?

Contractually (and technically) she has started working for them. The contract is perfectly valid. If it wasn't contracts would be rather ponitless.

jobbingmusician

Hmm, not so sure here. She had signed it. Had they? Sounds to me as if they could easily have backed out and left her with nothing.