DWP claims in its submission that worker status is only retained for 6 months if registered unemployed.

Is this baloney or does it have some legal basis?

Thanks!

Tis not entirely baloney, however upon 6 months having elapsed, the opportunity must be there to provide evidence that client is still engaged with the labour market and has a reasonable prospect of being employed.

The precedents from a case called "Antonissen" to which you'll find a link on the site somewhere, but I believe it's built into directive 2004/38/EC somewhere... If I'm, not too busy I'll look it up later, see what the postman brings...

I've a case pending at Comms at the mo where Mr Jacobs in directions has intimated that where there are no language barriers and client is taking steps to find work it's just a question of keeping to their Jobseekers Agreement, but he might yet change his mind.

R v Immigration Appeal Tribunal, ex parte Antonissen (1991) is available here.

directive... DF">http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2004:158:0077:0123:EN DF

it's at preamble 9 &16 and article 7 3 (c). You might even get the regs if you're lucky.

I like the built in smiley bit it renders the link broke copy teh link and replace Mr Smiles with {colon Capital P} and it'll work

crazy link !

.. can't get it to work with their strange URL, so have uploaded here instead .... Directive 2004/38/ec of the european parliament and of the council of 29 april 2004

Thanks for all the replies and links!