Petition Make advertising in any form a fake job vacancy a serious offence

common practice within recruitment is to invent vacancies (even in some cases naming a real Company) to increase the number of CV's a recruitment agency has on file. This completely wastes job-seekers time, effort, gives them false hope and distracts them from the real task of getting a job

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14 signatures

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Date closed 3 May 2017
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