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underpaid by a few hours, is it worth chasing up?
My part time job, got my first payslip, underpaid by 3 hours. Its not a lot, but the principle is there and I need all the money I can get. Should I not bother, as one worker said its no big deal, but another one said I am entitled to what I work, simple. I also know a lot of retail places are rubbish at giving you the…
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Possible work at home opportunity
Got this email today, I'm curious. From how it reads it looks like you accept parcels then post them onto people. I searched on the internet I couldn't find anything about them. Just wondered if anyone else had heard of them? Are they genuine? Thanks
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Disciplinary Hearing Help??????
Hi There My partner has just come back from his hearing in a right state, It was for gross negligence. The hearing was rushed, the people asking him the questions did not allow him to respond fully asking for yes no answers not allowing him to elaborate and discuss the mitigating circumstances, he said he felt intimidated…
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SSP help please
Hope someone can help.... I've been receiving SSP from my employers for the past few months, signed off with depression. My employers decided to terminate my employment on 28th August but they haven't paid me my SSP for August. I've tried to contact them but they won't respond to my calls or emails. What shall I do???
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Overtime payments
Hi can anyone help , 2 years ago i changed roles at the same place of work and because the wages for the new job were lower it was verbally agreed with the manager i would claim 5 hours overtime per week . Each week the manager or his relief signed my pay record and it has always been paid , now we have a new manager and…
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tax and second job help please?
I hope this is in the right place, if it's not i'm sorry, i wasn't sure where to post this. Anyway i started a second part time job last month, and got paid from them last week. And i got emergency taxed, and had £100 took off me!! I am just off the phone to the tax office, and the man i spoke to has split my tax code…
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Short Term contracts on CV
Hi, I was looking for a bit of advice on how to account for these on my CV. Prior to my current role which I have been in for a little over 18 months I worked on a number of short term temporary contracts. Obviously I know this looks bad on my CV so is it wise/ok to put next to the job title description that it was a short…
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No response from application sent
At the start of august i applied for a job with a local firm but ive not heard anything from them (there was no closing date, i saw the ad on the firms site ), there could be a few reasons why ive not heard anything, 1 could be that they're taking they're time to get back to applicants, 2 they didnt receive my application…
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Labours new Initiative for young unemployed
The government is doing or trying to help the young unemployed into work but what about the unemployed who are older than 25, are they just left on the heap.
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Where would I stand with job centre?
Sorry for another long post, I wanted to get all the details in. I applied for a job a couple of weeks ago (sent my CV only) which was advertised as a 'payment area supervisor/till operative' in a garden centre. I have a background in admin/training and customer service and really do enjoy dealing with customers so thought…
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F&B controller / Hotel controller for Cruise ship
please advice...
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DWP sending me on a Back to work session ? Still on JSA though
Hi there I am coming to the end of 6 months on JSA Cont based at the end of Sept. I was handed a letter today telling me I had to attend a group session for an hour at the local jobcentre called a back to work interview or something. I asked the JC person who said "I dont know coz I havent been on one" helpful, not. I dont…
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Agency delaying payslip and not enough holiday
I currently work for an employment agency - not a small "one man band" but the largest HR company in the world (guessed who yet?!) Anyway, the company I'm working for has a major contract with the agency so the agency has an office within one of the company's offices (but not the one where I work). I've worked there before…
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Am I being made redundant?
I have worked for my employer for nearly 10 years. He is going to go into partnership with another company, the initial reason for the partnership is so contracts that he has can be transferred, after 3 months the partner will buy him out. When he goes into partnership he will be "transferring" all the staff from our…
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Help anyone?
hi all! need some info on ANY financial help no matter how little as i pick up the remnants of my business! Have been on JSA and believe that there is a 'grant' available for the first so many weeks....but i can't find any info on such a grant...does anyone know where i might find it? Thanks guys:confused:
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Sainsburys Jobs - Are the hours rigid
Hi All, Does anyone have any experience of working for Sainsburys, and can you tell me how rigidly you are expected to stick to the advertised hours. My eldest has been offered a job, but the contracted hours will sometimes overlap with football matches (he has a season ticket). Is there any chance the store manager would…
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Feeling guilty about getting an interview
Feel free to move this or ignore it... Long story short: I was diagnosed with IBS in February this year. It's not horrifically bad now but that is largely because I have medication for it, but prior to diagnosis and going onto the medication I quite often had chronic stomach pains that did restrict an awful lot of what I…
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Can't face going back to my job - what to do?
Hello I am currently off work with a broken foot and have been signed off until 14th Sept so far. I am due back at the hosp on Mon to decide whether to take the plaster off altogether or replace with a walking plaster - which may mean I am signed off longer. My job - is in a well known bank - and my job is quite a sought…
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employee or self employed?
I have been working on a self employed basis as a trainer for the same uk govt. org for exactly 5 years. I work approx 20 weeks a year. HMRC did assess. in sept 2008 and said I was employee. The org. have accepted this and I have a letter saying that as from 1.4.09 they must take nat. ins. cons. from my pay. They have not…
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training cpcs
Hi there, due to the climate, construction is really bad as we all know I have been unemployed now for 6 months, but in total over a year but agency work in between. Ive contact some companys who do train to gain / funded training for people and apparently a lot of these companys now have been capped by the government? I…
