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Postcode lottery gone mad!!!

Big an Bouncy

Big an Bouncy

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Hubs and I went to jobcentre the other day.He asked after a job and was told he couldnt apply for it as it was designated for people in a more disadvantaged area than we lived in.Our post code was too good!!Sorry for living in a nice area but he still wants a job!What if no one applied from these other areas,would the vacancy ever be filled?What a load of bull!:eek::mad:
 
OH MY GOD!!! That is ridiculous!!! This world has gone mad I tells ya!!
 
thats totally crazy ! theres so many people in need of jobs and it should go to the person that its suited to not from where you live. did you watch benefit busters on ch4 the other day, that was a complete joke as well.
 
I agree re bebefit busters just a total waste of time and money.What a farce that A4E place was 100 per person per week!!Give the money to raise the minimum wage and perhaps more peeps will get off benefits.Its just not worth it for some people to come off when your council tax etc kicks in again and you have travel costs.This government is hellbent on throwing money at stupid schemes it makes me sooooo mad.as Gran on the Catherine Tate show would say..."What a lot of old s**t!!!"
 
I recently went back to work and am better off, but that's because i'm doing more hours than i would normally. I'll pay full rent and council tax, as i did before so don't quite get how am better off, but hey ho its good to be back with grown up's again lol xx

Oh yes my OH should look for some of these postcoded jobs, we live in a rougher part of Wolverhampton, although my neighbours seem ok, so that should help him.

But i agree, anybody should be able to apply for any job. Just because your fortunate enough to live in a nicer area doesn't make you any less in need of an income. Just means you sit in the front room looking at a nicer car than i do!

You should write to the employment minister and complain, very unfair.... xxx
 
Aww no Julie we only have an old mondeo honest!But we do live in a 'better' area of Liverpool,only cos its on the outside of the city bordering on countryside.Though there are better/worse areas everywhere and unemployed all over the country.I honestly think there are jobs being kept for people new to this country.
 
My husband is 61!worked all his life in the building trade,so thats 46 years hard slog in all weathers.Paid his taxes and ni.Now he has had an op on his shoulder thru wear and tear of his job and can no longer plaster etc.The girl(about 18 years old) said to him 'have you considered office work?'I kid you not I couldnt help myself,I said does he look like he knows a photocopier from a computer!He is a burly,mans man type of guy with callouses on his hands and muck under his nails!Not really but you get my drift,a man used to manual work.She said there was a drivers job..14hours per week delivering pizza for Dominos! WTF...get the men in white suits now.
 
Mental...just mental. I'd ask to see someone higher than the jobsworth on the desk. Also put in a formal complaint anyway.

It's hard enough looking for work but to be turned away due to the wrong location - that's bonkers :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:
 
I am sorry but I think you will find that is discrimination and they can't do that. The law says everyone has to have the same chance at applying for a role. They can not be turned down for any other reason than there suitability for the role.

You have a case.
 
soontobethinsue said:
I am sorry but I think you will find that is discrimination and they can't do that. The law says everyone has to have the same chance at applying for a role. They can not be turned down for any other reason than there suitability for the role.

You have a case.
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Not quite right. Simple discrimination is NOT illegal - after all people discriminate between choices every day from who they choose to fill a job to what flavour of yoghurt they pick at lunch ;)

In the UK the only forms of UNLAWFUL discrimination are discrimination on the grounds of:
Race
Gender
Disability
Age
Sexual Orientation
Religion

They are the only grounds of discrimination on which you can bring a case. In the case of B+B's husband I cannot see any actionable discrimination against a Merseyside resident.

This "job" seems to me to be the kind of artificially created position or training that is funded by a local authority or charity or Europe to assist areas that are exceptionally deprived and is confined to a limited geographical area or type of person (ie a person on benefits and/or living in a particular council area).

And, to be honest, and, contrary to what B+B thinks I would very much doubt if it would be open to people who had been resident in the area for any short length of time.

love

TillyBob
 
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