Jobseeker's Agreement
When a claimant attends a new Jobseeker Interview, they are required to sign a contract with their advisor. The contractual agreement is open to changes at one to one interviews occurring every 4 weeks. The terms of the agreement include:
- How many companies they will telephone each week
- The maximum journey time to a potential employer for work
- How many things they will do to get work a week
- How many times they should search DirectGov's job section a week
- How many companies they will visit in person each week
- Whether they will use any magazines/newspapers to find vacancies
- That they will not work for more than 16 hours a week. Educational courses are sometimes counted for this time limit. The reason for this limit is that the government believes that doing more than 16 hours affects the Jobseeker's ability to find employment.
The issuing of funds is therefore dependent on the individual fulfilling contractual obligations, a factor of the political dictum or maxim known as welfare contractualism, expressed in the paper New Ambitions for our Country: A New Contract for Welfare of 1998 as:
| “ | at the heart of the new state will be a contract between citizen and government based on responsibilities and right | ” |
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