I ask because DH has been unemployed for some time now and has been referred to a company called Maximus via the Jobcentre. They have written a CV for him as his was 'unsatisfactory'. The new version was written by someone whose native tongue is Polish. It's full of grammatical errors and the punctuation is virtually non-existent. On top of all that, they have written that he has been self-employed for 2 years doing garden maintainance and gutter cleaning. Now we've all mildly exaggerated on our CV's, but that is just an outright lie. The nearest DH has been to a gutter is walking underneath the one on our house. And garden maintainence? Don't make me laugh, he doesn't even know which way up the rake goes ffs. If he starts employment with a company and they find out he doesn't know what he's doing and has lied, they can fire him.
I told him to speak to his Jobcentre Advisor and tell them he's not comfortable with lying about his employment history but they said he has to do as Maximus say or he'll face sanctions (ie they stop his JSA) and he can make a complaint, which he did. But they then told the Maximus employees that he'd complained about them and now they're deliberately making his life more difficult. They keep him longer than they should so he misses his bus home and has to wait around for an hour. Is this allowed? I'm in a rage as I type. At least with his old CV he had a few interviews, even if he wasn't successful, but with this one, nobody's going to even look at it. They'll take one look and chuck it straight in the recycling bin!
Any advice on what he should do would be much appreciated. I understand that a Jobseekers Agreement is something that should be strictly adhered to, and breaching it, quite rightly, carries sanctions. But should he be made to break the law in order to stick to it??