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'Proven administration experience'
I have just read this is a job specification. Now surely if you work in an office you have proven administration experience? How do you prove it? Basically my current job is quater of my time is spent working on a library desk and the other three quaters is spent in the back office doing what I consider to be adminstrative…
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Redundancy PILON
i) It is likely that I will get made redundant with immediate effect in the next week. I am owed 10 weeks notice which I have been told I will need to put a claim in for. If my contract is terminated with immediate effect (not on garden leave) can I find (and start) another job during those 10 weeks and still receive the…
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Help! Being offered a contract I don't want!
Hi all, I've been working for a company for 10 months and have not signed or been given verbally or written any form of contract. I am unhappy where I now work and attended an interview last week and I'm due to be contacted in the next few days to confirm if I have got the job. The interviewer asked what my notice is and I…
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Is this harassment
Can anyone advise? My mother is off on long term sick leave from work. She is going in for major brain surgery at the end of March. Her area manager keeps sending letters asking to see her for 'absence management counselling'. I have told the area manager that my mum can't go out on her own, therefore she needs to come to…
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What do i do?
I applied for a job as a community carer a few weeks ago but heard nothing back so assumed i didn't make the short list of an interview, however i was wrong and they phoned me on Monday asking me to come Thursday ( today) and i am being physically sick with nerves. I can see both the pros and cons of working. I am at home…
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Please help advise me looking for jobs in a non local area.
Good Morning Everyone :D Recently i left uni and i done a standard it job for a year and then moved home from England to Scotland... It was the worst idea i have ever had because the oppertunities compared to down south are bleak :( I have been fored for the last couple of month to work for a popular bank with terrible…
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Illegal Deducation from Wages?
Don't know if anyone can help shed some light here. Basically, my 17-year old son had a part-time job at the local ice rink, serving in the cafe, up to mid-January. On his last week there, he and another lad were in charge of the cafe and at the end of the shift instead of one cashing up while one did the bins, they…
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Why can't I get an interview?
I've been sending my CV around practically everywhere that's advertising for staff, I've applied for three graduate positions for supermarkets, two have ignored me, one I "failed" the maths test (and to be honest, you'd need to be a mathematician to pass it), applied for a number of "normal" jobs, none of them have even…
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Crisis Loan Repayment?
I was unemployed in 1995/6 but have now been in full time employment for around 12 years, but today the department for work and pensions sent me a letter saying I owe them a large sum of money for some crisis loans I had way back then, are they entitled to ask after all this time? It's not as if I had vanished off the…
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I'm on the sick and "company want a conference"?!?
I'm on sick leave at the moment and have been for around 11 weeks. I will probably get another sick note for 8 weeks or 12 weeks. Company have asked for a conference to discuss whether I can see myself going back. I'm off with stress and depression. What are they going to discuss - will it be a compromise agreement to…
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Job application Suspended
:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: I applied for a vacancy by phone on 11th Feb. The application form reached me today post marked 19th, saying the job was suspended???????? & anyway the form had to reach them by 21st?????????????????? I called them to ask why the vacancy was suspended & why they…
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Can employer make deductions out of SSP
Can an employer take deductions other than NI out of SSP? Thanks Sarah x
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CRB - enhanced disclosure
I have been employed by a local authority for over 5 years. I deal with vunerable adults, children and work in the field of anti-social behaviour. I have no criminal convictions, and have only recently got back my enhanched disclosure. I was shocked to see that in the final coloumn (details given at the discretion of the…
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Partner sacked, help please!
My partner has been sacked today for refusing to carry out duties (that were unsafe - mainly transporting air compressors, they expected him to move compressors by hand around factories by himself and when transporting a compressor, one of the tyres blew out on the motorway almost causing an accident. There were cracks in…
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Potential Redundency
Hi gang, well 15 months into new job and it's all change. My relationship with my two bosses has gone down hill. I thought about leaving a long time ago, but decided to hang on in there for the pension. Anway, the company is looking at outsourcing and my role is one thats deemed adequate for outsourcing. If I go I lose my…
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Do I deserve a payrise?
Last August I got a promotion at work and with it came extra responsibility but also an increase in pay. I just found out today that the rest of the company employees got a performance based salary in December. When I found out I felt a bit cheated as even though I got an increase in August that was based on an increase in…
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Jobseeking in Milan
Does anybody have a clue where I could start looking for a job in Milan? Any agencies over here that might be able to help or would it be better to look there? Thanks!
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Graduate job agencies
Can anyone recommend me to a graduate agency. I am going to graduate this year, with a 2.1 (hopefully) studying and finance and accounting degree. I have been applying to graduate jobs but feel that applying to agencies would have a more two pronged approach and I suppose it would be interesting to see what they come up…
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Occupational Health Conflict of Interest!
Help! I'm off sick with stress and depression and within three days of going on the sick I was referred to Occupational Health. No problem there, but, my bosses husband is the Manager of the Occupational Health Department. At my initial appointment with their counsellor I questioned him on this and he said that even if I…
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The Final Insult
Some of you may be aware of the ongoing drama of me leaving my full time employment to go full-time freelance. Well My directors who I report directly to came back from holiday this week, after I'd handed in my notice last week in their absence. None of them have said ONE WORD to me. Not a huge surprise, they have no…
