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My employer is charging me £2k to leave the company
Apologies this is a bit complex, but I'm a bit lost and I'm wondering if anyone is able to confirm if there is a legal basis for the below demands? This is based on a discretionary business commission scheme, and the terms quoted below were provided in April 2020 in response to COVID-19. Nothing was signed or agreed by me,…
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HELP - Sixt want to charge £250 to cancel booking due to Covid lockdown...
Hi, I hope somebody can help me - I recently paid £282 to
hire a car from Sixt (www.sixt.co.uk) to go away to Norfolk for my partners
birthday at the end of this month. Unfortunately, the new lockdown has begun
and we’re not allowed to go, but when I asked for a refund Sixt said they will charge
£250 just to cancel the…
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New Business Corona Virus Support
Hi - I look after support a few new pub businesses in my job and I try to give them the best advice I can - the question I have is what support is there for a new business that just opened 1 week before the second lockdown and forced to close its doors after a few days of trading - I understand the principle of Furlough…
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Personal trainer & Gym
Hello! I signed up with a personal trainer in September once I was more confident once the gym had re opened in July. I pay for my sessions via a direct debit a month in advance. Now unfortunately the gyms have closed I have 8 sessions remaining for November and December’s payment due 20th November. My pt has given me an…
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STA Travel deposit - paid by Visa & Nationwide refuse refund claim
A little over two months after putting in a Visa dispute claim to Nationwide they have turned it down with the vague (and apparently standard wording) "Having looked at the information provided we're sorry to say that, as it stands, there is no basis for us to raise a claim against the merchant." Brief scenario is that we…
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Halifax phone scam!
4 weeks ago I was called by someone claiming to be from Halifax.. they told me someone was using my card and they had taken 3 lots of money, £400, £300 and £29.99. She continued to say we needed to stop this so we need to move the money to another account so they can’t get anymore (sounds so obvious saying it now I know!).…
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second payment holiday
Hi , looking for advice. At the start of lockdown 1 I was furloughed along with my wife and was able to take advantage of a 3 month payment holiday on credit cards and a loan. I was able to return to work and restarted all my payments in full after the 3 month period. Now with lockdown 2 my wages have been affected again…
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Covid 19 wedding conundrum
Hello all. We were planning to marry on 4th July 2020 but the obvious happened. We were in touch with our venue who laid out the postponement options. We had to choose April 17th 2021 as we were told this was the only Saturday they had left that wouldn’t increase the price (as the next years prices were going up and we’d…
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Still no BA refund
Hi, this is my first EVER forum post ANYWHERE, so forgive any errors. Our holiday was booked through Loveholidays [LH] with flights booked via British Airways [BA]. We had our refund for hotel and bits months ago from LH, but even though we requested a full refund for flights from BA months ago, they still have not…
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Can you be furloughed while on sick leave for work related stress?
I am currently on sick leave (full pay as per company handbook) for work related stress. I have never been furloughed before can they decide to furlough me now and cut my wages to 80%? And what happens if I don't agree.
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Change of Contract & Furlough
Hi Guys, I'm after as much advice as possible please. I have worked since Feb 2019 for a large well known restaurant/pub chain, this was my 2nd job, so I was only part time. In July I was offered a promotion and an increase in hours, which I accepted & my contract was then changed. I handed in my notice & left my other…
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Self isolate grant
Hi, I have recently become self employed in September 2020. Would I still be able to receive the 500 pound grant for self isolating if someone in my house hold has tested positive for the virus. I have read up on it I have proof of earnings and proof I cannot work from home. It also mentions I can show them my self…
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Going back on furlough while still redendant
I have been on the furlough scheme since it started. I was made redundant when it originally ended and requested pay in lieu of notice. Now my employer has asked if I want to go back on it. I am still redundant at the end of it and they've said it doesn't affect my entitlements. Has this happened to anyone else?
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Lastminute - again!
No advance with my issues with lastminute, but a couple of pieces of news today. Firstly, the chief executive of LM was in the Financial Times complaining about airlines not refunding money for cancelled tickets. That doesn’t explain why they’ve shut down all means of communication and won’t tell anyone what point their…
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RyanAir
Can someone please help me? I booked a Holiday with ‘Love
Holidays’ for June 2nd which was cancelled due to Covid-19. Since
June I decided to take a voucher offered by ‘Love H’ for the accommodation. Now
here is the problem ‘Ryanair’ have just sent random emails with the same
information. Within this email there is an…
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Help with Ryanair refund please
Hello Everyone, could I have some advice please on who to approach for a refund ? Booked a holiday via Love Holidays to Fuertaventura was due to fly on 7th November. Could not fly for two reasons 1) Our hotel was shut due to COVID and it is not reopening until end of December - On a positive note we got our refund for the…
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Redundancy and Furlough
Hi, this is actually regarding my mum. She was made redundant in June, given her notice and was supposed to receive her redundancy pay at the end of September. Due to the company not being insolvent, it was only her role being made redundant, they have to pay it themselves and they can't afford it. They are supposedly…
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Childcare fees lockdown 2.0
I have 2 children affected in nursery affected in slightly different ways Child A - key worker has tested positive for COVID and therefore all children are required to self isolate for 2 weeks Child B - different nursery updated their policy as a direct result of the above and advice from your early years team to exclude…
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Please help
Hi there,I'm posting in here in utter desperation.I'll start right from the start, I'm posting this on behalf of my grandparents who booked a family trip of a life time to disney florida to celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary, they booked it in April 2019 for departure 14th March 2020.On the 13th March 2020 we (My…
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Mixed messages about eligibility for extended Furlough Scheme.
I didn't apply for furlough for employees before 31 July (I thought we could weather the storm...wrong!) MSE seems to be saying that I CAN now apply for the extended CJRS (furlough scheme), but when I go onto the gov.uk site to apply, and login, they tell me this: ------- You cannot claim for the Coronavirus Job Retention…
