Jobcentre are forcing my husband into a job thats not worth his while?

Tell him to ask about tea-breaks and sick pay etc, he won't get the job.

Yes, they can. It's their rules. Where I am you must apply for at least 2 jobs a week, wether they're in your field or not, and you must take the first job offered to you, no matter what the salary, or you'll lose your benefits. They do this to keep people from abusing the system.

if they got half the druggies and alcoholics off their backsides and put them into work instead of treating them like invalids then there would not be so many unemployed baby! i know where your coming from.

If it`s only three hours a night is only 21 hours, a week so that is not classed as full time employment, so it should not count, only other thing to do go see the doctor about his bad back??

Hi there. First, I believe he can turn down 2 jobs before being forced to take one. That need checking. Secondly, your payment protection should not necessarily be connected to benefit claims anyway and might be on a sliding scale for lower paid work - so check that out too. He should get a job as a classroom assistant, their hours match school times perfectly. Legally, the state can insist your husband works and take action if he doesn't. If pushed, he should sign off with stress. Good luck, Steve.

what the problem is there is a time of siging that they have to go by and they are at that end, and there is no reason why your husband can't work he is not disable or not mental there so they are forcing him to work to pay his bills that he had accumlated and yes they can and will stop they are trying to get you some lead way by telling you this upfront he can get a job any wheres working at night so he can sleep during the day while the kids are at school and between y'all bith working one can take off here and there is there is a school holiday. But he better do something pretty quick because they will stop signing that protection plan, this is costing them money by having to pay it for y'all

I've heard stories that they can and are doing exactly what they are threatening. Option one would be to fail the interview, but there is not realistically going to be may applicants. Option two look for security work, but will he be awake to look after the kids after a 12 hour night. Best of luck, it's a hard call.

Man, sounds harsh.

I am suprised that he is not receiving job seeskers allowance since this is not based on household income, but on previous NI contributions. From the Jobcentre's point of view they need to get people into employement regardless of whether the job is suitable or not, just so they can say that unemployment is down. So regardless of whether he is receiving any monies, i think they just don't want him to be unemployed anymore.