Claiming JobSeekers but employed part time

A question about : Claiming JobSeekers but employed part time

Hi, basically I am claiming job seekers allowance and I have declared that I am employed part time and told job centre the circumstances of my current employment means that the hours are not fixed each week which results in me not having a consistent enough wage each month. The job that I do is a safety steward at football matches. My problem is that I no longer wish to do anymore shifts for this company as I can choose when to do shifts etc but I got a call from work asking if I was available to which I replied saying 'no I'm not'. Would my workplace notify job centre that I have said I'm not available for work on a Saturday. In the mean time I am obviously looking for work frantically before I start university and don't see no point in staying with the current company that I am employed with.

What I am worried about is that my workplace, the guy that had rung me might tell job centre plus that I had said no to working this Saturday. Any advice?

Best answers:

• I can't answer questions about claims, but I do advise your whole family to look carefully at the care needed; if you haven't contact your Local Authority for an assessment and look at what benefits / help your mum is entitled to. Otherwise you all risk being in a dreadful tangle!
  Lupus is a very difficult disease because of its intermittent relapses & remissions but there is a Lupus Society that can help with with explaining this.
• As Birmingham CAB have said, you are allowed to claim JSA while looking for suitable work, and can specify that jobs at particular times are not suitable. It is important that you let your Jobcentre know that you are unable to accept jobs that involve weekend working, unpredictable shifts and so forth, and that this fact is recorded in your Jobseeker's agreement.
  I think it unlikely that your employer would bother to contact the DWP about a single shift, and in any case I doubt whether refusing to work one shift offered at short notice would lead to a "sanction". So I don't think you need worry about this.
• I'm not sure that the Jobcentre will accept a refusal to take irregular shifts. I think you would be better simply telling them that you are unable to work at weekends and therefore can't continue to do the stewarding job.