Legality of False Advertising

[expat]

To which you could have responded...

"Enforce your code of conduct... what else?"

Who pays Jobserve?

[DodgyAgent]

Thats fine for a clientCo to do that Dodgy, as long as the agent is told by the clinetCo that its only a possability, and the agent tells us this. At least we all know where we stand.

What gets up my nose is the same job ads recycled every few weeks or months. If you look on JobServe for Java, "North West" there is an ad for a JCAPS developer, I have seen this ad over and over and over again. Either the job is bogus or when the job gets filled the contractor gives up quickly, or the clintCo bin them quickly.

It would be difficult to "police"

[robbie274]

Thats fine for a clientCo to do that Dodgy, as long as the agent is told by the clinetCo that its only a possability, and the agent tells us this. At least we all know where we stand.

What gets up my nose is the same job ads recycled every few weeks or months. If you look on JobServe for Java, "North West" there is an ad for a JCAPS developer, I have seen this ad over and over and over again. Either the job is bogus or when the job gets filled the contractor gives up quickly, or the clintCo bin them quickly.

[McBainCo]

On Friday 6th about mid-day, someone advertises for a Solvency 2 practitioner ( a hand full in this country, all actuaries earning in excess of £80pa as permies).
On Monday evening the role was filled!

On the other hand, DA you do have a point! Thanks

[DodgyAgent]

Is it legal to advertise fictitious roles?

Does the advertising law (if any) apply to contracts?

Can someone point me to the actual law ( if it has been passed) and when it was ennacted?

How do you define "a real job".

if a hiring manager simply says if "you have any Cobol programmers I am interested in seeing their Cvs". Is that defined as an actual job?
Or does it need to have 10 pages of job specs, plus H&S rules and everything else?

[P1mpAndPr0ud]

I'm going to apply the oft-quoted "Tradesman" rule here -

If you got a quote for a plumber to fit a new toilet, and then decided you didn't want it done, would he be able to sue you on the grounds of "false advertising"?

I think not...

Or, more pertinently, if you advertised on Gumtree for a plumber to come and fit a new toilet, one contacted you, came out and did you a quote, and when he got there you told him the toilet had already been fixed. Could he then sue you for "false advertising"?

Not sure about that one, but again I don't think so... He probably wouldn't like you very much, and would refrain fro answering your postings in the future. He might even tell all his plumber friends you're a time-waster. But I don't think he could sue you...

Thoughts, everyone?

[McBainCo]

What sort of false advertising are they referring to?

on this link: http://www.computing.co.uk/computing...tising-3900811

I agree that proving it is difficult, but surely they must have had a brief?

Thanks for your views!

[jmo21]

there are very obvious ones on Jobserve, but for most of these fictitious jobs I reckon it'd be pretty difficult to prove it was fake

The agent will usually say one of the following:

- the role has been filled
- they have filled the role internally
- the role is no longer available as the budget has been pulled

and many more.

So how do you get them to prove any of these?

[Beefy198]

I can't think why there would be any specific legislation against it, however any site that wishes to maintain their integrity surely should try and prevent them.

[pmeswani]

I put the same question to Jobserver admin about 4 years ago and they gave me a reply that effectively said 'no its not legal, we have a code of conduct that our advertisers should adhere to but wtf do you expect us to do about it anyway?'

I'll see if I still have it in my mail archive.

To which you could have responded...

"Enforce your code of conduct... what else?"

[Rantor]

Is it legal to advertise fictitious roles?

Does the advertising law (if any) apply to contracts?

Can someone point me to the actual law ( if it has been passed) and when it was ennacted?

I put the same question to Jobserver admin about 4 years ago and they gave me a reply that effectively said 'no its not legal, we have a code of conduct that our advertisers should adhere to but wtf do you expect us to do about it anyway?'

I'll see if I still have it in my mail archive.

[Bluebird]

Is it legal to advertise fictitious roles?

Does the advertising law (if any) apply to contracts?

Can someone point me to the actual law ( if it has been passed) and when it was ennacted?

I wouldn't have though so, the law and advertising relates mainly to "claims" of what products can and cannot do, and rubbishing competitors.

I don't see an agency advertising something that doesn't exist as being wrong - after all some shops advertise sale items which aren't in stock...

[NotAllThere]

I believe the penalty for advertising should be death for the first offence.

[McBainCo]

Is it legal to advertise fictitious roles?

Does the advertising law (if any) apply to contracts?

Can someone point me to the actual law ( if it has been passed) and when it was ennacted?