To this is absolutely insane! Universal Credit Sanction

So she sued for breach of contract in the county court, which isn't the same as making a claim for Unfair Dismissal at ET.

Are you perhaps being given false information? It seems strange to be fired within three days. What sort of work was it?

1500 job applications in 7 months is about 7 per day. But she's sleeping a large chunk of the day. This is either untrue, or she's rushing through applications. It takes me several hours to apply for a job properly usually. If there are complicated statements to write it can be more.

I think t can be argued though in court.

I just read where a woman in ireland was successful in sueing for unfair dismissal, after just one year's service.

The court found in her favour as the employer had broken loads of normal employment practices. He refused to give her a payslip, was one thing he did wrong, i remember.

You don't have the right to bring an Unfair Dismissal claim to ET until you have two years continuous service - not merely after you've passed your probationary period which is typically only three months.

For God's sake, she CAN live.
She lives at home with presumably everything paid should she be sanctioned.

The UK can do better than 7 pounds a month. No one should be sanctioned to the point they cant live.

It's sad that anyone should feel embarrassed in such a situation. The problem is society's reaction to body matters.

Sweden also have one of the highest tax brackets in Europe, if not the world, to pay for this and other (very worthy) things they do.

The UK cannot continue this way.

No way is she applying for that many jobs when you say she sleeps 16 hours a day.

I worked with long term unemployed disabled people for many years and some of my clients were bladder or bowel incontinent or had stomas. Several described having very public accidents while at work, being sent home and then having to come in the following day to face the people who witnessed their embarrassment. Very, very difficult.

@Horserider5678 "Generally if it’s only a few days there’s little or no notice period it would be no more than a week!"
Incorrect. Even with only three days service an employee is entitled to their contractual notice, which was obviously one month in this case because that's what OP's DD's former employer paid her when they dismissed her.

Or they do the maths wrong.

My son was sanctioned, late for appointment due to bus issue on his way back from a job interview (which he got yay)

The maths was completely wrong. They’d worked out a 30 day sanction ‘by accident’.

@JenniferBooth You seem brave, but have you ever had a disaster in public, with teenagers laughing at you? It then becomes harder.

Good advice.

Reading this back,

It is sad that a misogynistic boss fired her, when she stood up for another woman.

And she has no power in thst situation whatsoever.

And now it is affecting her getting her next job

No, by that logic lots of applicants are turned down each time and one is lucky. It's perfectly possible to keep being one of the unsuccessful applicants.

Have to agree. A few years ago now but I worked as an Employment Advisor at a Jobcentre and there will be entry level service/caring/cleaning jobs - if not any entry level data entry/admin/receptionist style jos. Not ideal but the best interim measure to stop that gap wining in her CV and at least money will be coming in and her mental health will hopefully improve with it.

As for the comment to her boss, you say she did nothing wrong but have to disagree. It’s not her fight, surely at 25 she should know some basic common sense etiquette. She should have just said nothing. In time, once she’s established herself, she may be in a position to perhaps safely challenge such incidences.

Also, I wouldn’t go into the job centres with DD to complain - the rules are the rules and DD can appeal if she has cause to. However, it may help if you went to support her and perhaps ask Qs about the job searching and possible opps as right now you only have what your DD tells you and you may have a different interpretation of their advice. When I worked there, there were always schemes and placements with jobs attached and other initiatives ongoing.

You’re contradicting yourself - you say she’s applied for over 1500 jobs since Christmas - that’s approx 20 a day not including weekends, and yet here you’re saying she doesn’t get out of bed sleeping for 14-16 hours a day.
Ultimately, she didn’t attend her appointment, didn’t cancel or reschedule, just didn’t show up. I’m not sure why you think she should be receiving UC as she is giving off no signs that she wants to work.

Yes I do agree with this. A job application took me about 3 full evenings recently.

Because everyone knows you don’t call out the big boss who does the hiring and firing while you are so new and can be sacked. How did it stop him doing it? It didn’t, it just meant your DD lost a job.

You play the long game. Or look for other jobs while remaining employed. Once you have passed probation etc and would have a case for unfair dismissal you try reporting it having gathered examples of the inappropriate behaviour.

Actually, people do get fired when they've done nothing wrong. Happens all the time.

I wonder if your DD might do better to apply to far fewer jobs but with a more tailored application. I know you said she did tailored cover letters but I find a really good job application requires quite a bit of time spent reading about the employer, the job, useful facts/background/latest news in the field etc. Maybe if she does some research like that it could help her to stand out a bit more? Has she asked for feedback from any of the rejectors to find out what went wrong?

YANBU.

Universal Credit was set up to punish people.

People have been sanctioned for missing appointments while having operations, or interviews or after having informed them in the proper way that they can't make the meeting. It's particularly difficult for people who are unwell due to physical or mental ill health.

And yes, those who don't have other support do fall through the cracks. Anyone here who thinks it's ok to give someone £7 a week to live on needs to have a word with themselves. How are they meant to survive? (Some don't).

Amnesty International recently described our benefits system as "Consciously Cruel” and “Ruining Lives”. They've published a report that says

The evidence delivers damning conclusions on how the system processes, punishes, harms and dehumanises people and fails to meet international legal obligations. Successive UK governments have ignored the United Nations (UN) pleas to take urgent action to fix this.

https://www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/uk-social-security-system-%E2%80%9Cconsciously-cruel%E2%80%9D-and-%E2%80%9Cruining-lives%E2%80%9D-finds-amnesty-uk

This. Some posters have little or no idea what actually constitutes benefit fraud.

Calling the MD rude regardless to if he was was a bold move on her 3rd day. Not surprising they let her probably thought rightly or wrongly she was going to cause issues in the future.

Should he have said it of course not but it’s not a perfect world and you have to choose battles wisely at work.