JimmyTee wrote: » I have been on Turas Nua's books with about 3 months, they haven't done anything worth while for me during this time, but I obliged their requests for meetings, as I understood at the time it was part of the social welfare system and their requirments. Now I have since got a job on my own merit, so I contacted my appointed rep at Turas Nua just to be polite and to sign of their system, after a friendly chat and me telling her the company name and the position I have been given, she then tells me they will need to contact my new employer to verify my employment and ensure my benefits will be correct (BS), this was the point I sniffed a rat and realised she didn't have my best interests at heart (How naive am I ). Upon checking the web about Turas Nua, I only now realise they are a private company appointed by the Department of Social protection. They are a profit making company and not a state body. I have told them very firmly not to contact my new employer, but they have said that I signed a acceptance form with them at the start and this allows them to follow my progress, and part of that is contacting employers. I contacted Citizens Information, who put me onto the Data Protection Commissioner, their reply was if "I had signed an agreement, then Turas Nua may be entitled to contact my employer". This is a ludicrous situation, I don't want them hassling my new employer, and no doubt they are trying to see if they can get others in the door as well as earning their own commission. I don't know if there is much I can do at this point. So this is more a word of warning to others who may be asked to sign up with Turas Nua and what their motives are, because you are not number one priority.
JimmyTee wrote: Now I have since got a job on my own merit, so I contacted my appointed rep at Turas Nua just to be polite and to sign of their system, after a friendly chat and me telling her the company name and the position I have been given, she then tells me they will need to contact my new employer to verify my employment and ensure my benefits will be correct (BS), this was the point I sniffed a rat and realised she didn't have my best interests at heart (How naive am I ).
Samsgirl wrote: » It has been two months to the day since I started my new job. Which I got without any help from turas nua. I was on a panel awaiting placement when I was forced to go to this shower. They tried the usual spiel when I was placed asking where I was working etc... I refused to tell them. So today, yet another call. This this is my 7th call since I started work. It's a total and utter scam by them.
straighttohell wrote: » She told me she just needed a VAT number!! I was busy at work when she called me and didnt pursue it. If I'd known at the time what the crack was I wouldnt have been as blase about it
straighttohell wrote: » Yes , I had the same ****e. I ended up ringing the Dept of Social Protect.... to complain. She said she would contact them. No harm having a moan, taxpayers are paying for this. Did they (Tuaras Nua) get you that job?
straighttohell wrote: » Likewise, it's a complete scam. There was even an article in the Independent recently about these Job Path companies. I didnt realise at the time that TN were one of them.
fin12 wrote: » Ya but do you know how long they will continue to contact you after finding a job?
Irish.26 wrote: » I'm working part time and still claiming some money from jobseekers allowance. I've been contacted my Job Path numerous times to attend an information session. I haven't attended any yet as I'm working on the day's I'm being called in and I've phoned explaining that. Reading these comments, I'm unsure about attending now as I don't want to be signed up for a year with them and having to accept jobs I don't want as I've already got a part time one myself. I've already got 3 strikes against me for not attending the information session and my jobseekers allowance was suspended for a few weeks. I phoned the social welfare department and they said I have to attend Job Path, I don't know what to do..
splinter65 wrote: » You can’t get any JSA if your not available for full time work. Might you be eligible for FIS instead ?
straighttohell wrote: » Since you're working P/T it's very unlikely they'll be able to offer you anything suitable for the other days but you've been unlucky in that you've been highlighted to attend this and that. If you stay on JSA you will need to make some token appearance - see Splinter's comment. Just maintain enough contact so as not to encourage them......
Irish.26 wrote: » Ok thanks for your advice. I'm thinking strongly of just not attending as I'm clearly happy where I am and I'm getting more work which is leading to me working full weeks sometimes. So I don't see how they will be a able to place me anywhere that will suit me. If I go I'm afraid of being hounded by them for the whole year and having them torment by boss too.
fin12 wrote: » Usually once you start with them, you have to attend meeting with your personal advisor every two weeks, which are a load of **** nd you just telling them what jobs you ha e applied for, That’s what I had to do anyway. Then outside of these meetings you can be put on courses some which can last all day. And the funny thing is if you are travelling to this meetings, they give u a payment for travel expenses but it doesn’t even scratch the surface of the cost of me attending my meetings, I had to make a journey altogether of 16 miles and then pay for parking, that costs a lot more than the €2.60 I was given and then one time I went to my appointment and my PA was leaving the office for the day and wouldn’t do my appointment so I didn’t even get the travel payment that day and had to go in the following week cause they f*cked up. And then to top it all off, they then take credit when you get a job even though it had f*ck all to do with it. Oh and they also make out that they only target long term unemployed and will only be placed with them if you are a year on the dole. I was sent to them after only 2 weeks of being on the dole because I think we can all understand who do you think is going to get employment fast and the most choice the person who has just come out of employment or the fella who has been on the dole years, you find very few of long term dollies in there because they know they don’t have a hope in hell of getting them a job.
Irish.26 wrote: » I've been getting paid a small amount of jobseekers allowance upon the day's I'm not working for the past year. My days vary, I could be working 3/4 day's a week sometimes a full week. What is FIS?
Irish.26 wrote: » It looks as though they make you think your number 1 priority when actually they don't care where they place you as long as you end up getting full time employment out of it and then bang you off jobseekers.
