Universal Jobmatch

A question about : Universal Jobmatch

Well has anyone heard the latest news today that from next year people who are on Jobseekers will have to sign up to UJM if they refuse then they benefits will be stopped!

Can't seem to post the link as its says I am new however go to google or go to Telegraph.

It seems the goverment want to monitor people's accounts to see if they trying hard to find work!

Best answers:

• In the Guardian
  https://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2...nt-job-website
  Telegraph
  https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/poli...overnment.html
• What is wrong with that, monitoring job searches?
• Oh just saw this
  https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20799963
• hope it is mandatory to use, and sanctioned if not used as they tell the job seekers to
• Telegraph notes that “The tracking element of the programme will not be compulsory as monitoring people’s behaviour online without their consent would not be allowed under EU law.”
  So claimants won’t be able to refuse Jobmatch but they can definitely refuse the monitoring aspect of the system.
  100K votes needed
  epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/42705
  Jobmatch is designed to spy on claimants in order to find excuses to sanction people. There’s also the fact that it’s an incredibly badly-designed site and could very easily be used for identity theft.
• if they are not looking for enough jobs, and doing what they are told this is a good enough 'excuse' to sanction people
• [QUOTE
  Jobmatch is designed to spy on claimants in order to find excuses to sanction people. There’s also the fact that it’s an incredibly badly-designed site and could very easily be used for identity theft.[/QUOTE]
  Ujm is not designed to spy on people at all, like we have the time! Exactly how could your job search activity be used for identity theft?
• They just worried about having to look for a job and actually being offered one.
• Biggest fear i can see is privacy / cloning of ID - a LOT of fake jobs are still being posted, despite what DWP say., and applicants sometimes have no way of telling why their personal info (not just cv!) may end up, as the 'employers' often withhold their info, or hide behind shell companies...
  Also, having jobs 'selected' for you by a total stranger (at JCP, others?), who may have no idea / interest in what your situation is, and then facing hefty sanctions if you dont apply, is just WRONG.
  I can also see any 'rejected jobs' being counted against claimants.
  I search and apply for plenty as it is. Whats next? Telling us what JSA can be spent on?
• What i am saying is that you can apply for jobs however you like, but dont be surprised if you are sanctioned, as you should be, for not doing as you are told
• poor excuses for not wanting to use all means to apply for a job. Easy life on benefits coming to an end if you dont do as you are told.