Universal Job match: full verification check of all new employers registering to post job adverts

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Dear Department for Work and Pensions,

"Monster is now undertaking a full verification check of all new employers registering to post job adverts on Universal Job match. "
Source: DWP Partnership News

Please disclose the information you hold that outlines these verification checks.

Yours faithfully,
Frank Zola

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Dear Department for Work and Pensions,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of Department for Work and Pensions's handling of my FOI request 'Universal Job match: full verification check of all new employers registering to post job adverts'.

Response overdue by more than 2 weeks.

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Dear DWP Strategy Freedom of Information,

Thanks you for your reply and confirming that the DWP has no idea whatsoever of any verification checks all new employers posting jobs on the https://www.gov.uk/advertise-job universal jobmatch website are subject to. Can you confirm that your contractor for jobmatch, Monster, also does not hold the requested information and that Monster has no freedom of information at obligation to disclose the information on this matter to you to answer my request?

Please disclose details of the verification checks of employers posting jobs onto the government's universal jobmatch service, by yourself or Monster.

I note that the comment made in your partnership news item:

"Monster is now undertaking a full verification check of all new employers registering to post job adverts on Universal Job match. " September/October2016

implies, by use of the word "now" that these checks are new and different or additional to earlier possibly lesser checks. It may just be a form of public relations and nothing new. If any new checks do exist, please disclose the charges Monster have made for these "now", new or different verification checks.

I am happy for this to be considered a new request for information and a complaint about your response to my original request.

Yours sincerely,

Frank Zola

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Dear Department for Work and Pensions,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of Department for Work and Pensions's handling of my FOI request 'Universal Job match: full verification check of all new employers registering to post job adverts'.

Response overdue by more than 2 weeks.

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/u...

Yours faithfully,

Frank Zola

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Please ignore our previous message regarding FoI 4543, we have re-categorised this as:

Internal Review reference: IR 510

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Dear DWP Strategy Freedom of Information,

Thanks you for your reply and confirming that the DWP has no idea whatsoever of any verification checks all new employers posting jobs on the https://www.gov.uk/advertise-job universal jobmatch website are subject to. Can you confirm that your contractor for jobmatch, Monster, also does not hold the requested information and that Monster has no freedom of information at obligation to disclose the information on this matter to you to answer my request?

Please disclose details of the verification checks of employers posting jobs onto the government's universal jobmatch service, by yourself or Monster.

I note that the comment made in your partnership news item:

"Monster is now undertaking a full verification check of all new employers registering to post job adverts on Universal Job match. " September/October2016

implies, by use of the word "now" that these checks are new and different or additional to earlier possibly lesser checks. It may just be a form of public relations and nothing new. If any new checks do exist, please disclose the charges Monster have made for these "now", new or different verification checks.

I am happy for this to be considered a new request for information and a complaint about your response to my original request.

Yours sincerely,

Frank Zola

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J Roberts left an annotation ()

This Upper Tribunal decision dated 28 September 2017 concerns a JSA claimant's refusal to register with Universal Jobmatch because of security issues. The appeal was allowed.

"The terms of section 10(6) of the Act effectively allow the Secretary
of State to impose on a claimant the terms of a jobseeker’s agreement if the claimant wishes to remain entitled to what for many claimants will be a subsistence benefit. But even in this circumstance it is still an
agreement between the parties (which in essence is what a contract is), and what the terms of the agreement are must be clear to both parties to that agreement. However, the Secretary of State cannot impose any terms he likes."

The judge, however, did not redecide the decision of the FTT . He remitted the matter to the FTT to be decided. He questioned the validity of a statement made by the FTT to the effect that there is no objection in law to a claimant being required to seek work on a full time basis. He stated: "I consider some care needs to be taken with the expression of such wide a view" and referred to decision CJSA/1814/2007 (Commissioner Williams).

http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKUT/AAC/...

Frank Zola left an annotation ()

This UT JSA UJ decision says:

23 "It may be argued that the above reasoning
is to bring into jobseeker’s allowance complicated
issues arising from contract law.
I do not accept this."

29 "The appeal will have to be re-decided completely afresh
by an entirely differently constituted First-tier Tribunal
(Social Entitlement Chamber), at an oral hearing"
http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKUT/AAC/...

"Need to identify the requirements of a varied jobseeker's agreement in order to decide whether its terms are reasonable"
£ https://www.rightsnet.org.uk/welfare-rig...
Key word "identify"