Will I be eligible for Job Seekers allowance?

[PrettyUnhappy]

I registered for JSA less than a month ago and I was due to have my first interview to establish my eligibility shortly after. I then got a job and I cancelled the interview. Unfortunately, afer only a week I have been told by my line manager that my conduct and performance are not satisfactory, which is likely to be treated as gross misconduct. Their have had an offish attitude towards me since the start. They gave me minimal training and they set me tasks I was bound to fail due to me being there for a week only. They keep teling me I am always making mistakes. I double check my work and I am pretty sure I am being set up. I want to leave before they start making even more serious allegations. They are a big and successful company and I feel powerless against them. I suspect that they are not happy with the references they received from my previous employer. I left my previous job with a compromise agreement because I was harassed by one of the managers. I agreed a reference with them, but they use a subject access prevention clause when they sent it to employers so I do not have access to what they actually write.
Before this last job I had been unemployed for 14 months. I got hundreds of rejections. Can someone help and tell me what my options are? I feel helpless.Thank you.

[Buenchico]

Point 1:
Your CURRENT employer (not the former one) almost certainly has to provide you with a copy of the reference from your previous employer if you ask for it. See "Do you have to give a copy of a reference you have received from someone else?", in this document (explaining the provisions of the Data Protection Act) from the Information Commissioner's Office:
http://www.ico.gov.uk...rences_v1.0_final.pdf

Since, for the first year of employment, any employer can dismiss any employee without the need to give any reason, Jobcentre Plus (and the DWP) must be used to people leaving jobs after only a short time, without any loss of JSA. You'll probably find that your claim is unaffected by your circumstances.

Chris

[pretty_snowdrop]

A huge company will have rules and regulations to how they can behave and whether they like it or not they can't just dismiss you because they don't like you. If you can't do the job you need to ask for more training, if your conduct is unsatisfactory you need to know what you are doing wrong.You should get several verbal and written warnings and given a action plan, so you know what is expected of you. If then you don't perform they may have grounds to dismiss you. Gross misconduct is when you do something which is against company policy not just having problems learning the job.
If they hadn't liked your reference they wouldn't have set you on in the first place. You need to speak to someone at work asap and hopefully sort everything out. Good luck

[factor-fiction]

^ What pretty_snowdrop says would apply if the OP had worked there more than a year, but when someone has worked there less than a year the employer can dismiss you for almost any reason and in law wouldn't need to follow all these steps

[pretty_snowdrop]

I didn't know you had to work there for over a year before they had to give a valid reason for dismissal. I was just going on what my company does. sorry.