privacy impact assessment for universal jobmatch

‘DWP completed this privacy impact assessment (PIA) for users of Universal Jobmatch to help us:

- comply with our data protection obligations
- identify and mitigate privacy risks
- meet the privacy expectations of users’

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/universal-jobmatch-privacy-impact-assessment

Interesting.
What is not obvious among all the detail in this report, is that job centre staff cannot require claimants to give them access to their UJC account. Job centre staff regularly tell claimants that they must - illegally - so that they can monitor how many hours a week they are spending on job seeking. I always advise claimaints to refuse to agree to this so that they cannot be monitored and the job centre adviser has to take their word for how long they spend each week. This removes one avenue for the job centrer adviser to set them up for a sanction.

I am equally fascinated by the idea that companies based elsewhere can register. Now of course many of them will be offering jobs in the UK but it would be interesting to see how many do not in light of the recent UT decision with regard to the impact of job-seeking in China would it not!