Job Hunting

[xstitchsurvivor]

Need some advice on the practicalities. Due to a court order in a custody case my dp has been told to look for jobs in the town my XH lives in so that we can get a place together. Due to the legal costs and other restrictions placed on me by the ruling I am very close to bankruptcy.

DP has a well paid job with benefits and due to the climate our research so far suggests that he has no chance of matching these conditions. Just quitting would definitely bankrupt us so obviously isn't an option. He has to find a job while working full time.

The problem is that he has been told that looking for another job would be gross misconduct. I know he can ask for his current employers not to be contacted but this will make it difficult to get to interviews and still keep it a secret. Getting sacked for gross misconduct would be a financial disaster and would obviously make it very difficult to find future work. So how do we get round this?

i think thats bollocks and would seek some formal advice on it

how can looking fo another job be misconduct?

ive been looking for another job for years, been to interviews and everything

I'm hoping you're right custy. I am getting very stressed about the whole thing. Its bad enough with the state of the job market without this to worry about too.

Who told him that? His current employer? Do they know he will be looking then?

Of course looking for another job is not gross misconduct. What your DP does in his own time is none of his employer's business.

If he were to spend time on a work computer in work hours job hunting, or throw sickies to go to interviews, that's one thing, but looking in his own time at evenings/weekends/annual leave days is nothing to do with them.