UTAA Jobseekers allowance – voluntary unemployment – ‘This case raises some interesting and difficult questions about the relevance to the provision in section 19(6)(a) of the Jobseekers Act 1995 for a ‘sanction’ (ie the identification of a period up to 26 weeks for which jobseeker’s allowance (JSA) is not payable) where a claimant has ‘lost his employment . . through misconduct’ of the provisions introduced into the Employment Rights Act 1996 by the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998 (‘the public interest disclosure legislation’). Those provisions provide protections against an employer in certain circumstances for an employee who is a ‘whistleblower’.’
Mesher J
[2012] UKUT 100 (AAC)
Bailii
England and Wales
Benefits
Updated: 30 December 2021; Ref: scu.460236