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Employment issues
I have been working as a recruitment consultant a job which I never thought I could do but I love it! I work and get paid for 40 hours a week but I get 5 hours free basically because I agreed to work on call (taking the work phone and laptop home prepared to answer calls at any time of day or night and book workers on to…
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Finding a job in a new (far-away) area
I am considering moving to a new area about 80 miles from where I live now to start a new life. The main worry that I have is that I am currently in a low paid job and without savings, I would need to find a job in the place I am going to. Thing is, I wouldn't know where to start. I know about searching for jobs and so…
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Help re return to work
Hi, I'm hoping some clever person will be able to give me some advice, I have previously posted this problem before but I am unable to find my last thread so I will give a brief overview: I went on to maternity leave last year and returned to work on the 1st of March, I have 2 contracts with 2 different schools both under…
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employee handbook?
my work are refusing to give me a employee handbook, its in my contract that i should get one... i should of not singed it untill i had got one i know that but i was coming off a temp contract to a perment one and 'if u dont give me it back now u wont get paid'. they say the handbook is on the internal website but what im…
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Working but not getting paid
My wife started a new job in the 3rd week of November 2010.. Everything was ok, she was paid on time in Nov and Dec but since then the company she works for has been unable to pay anyone on time. The company have been paying everyone in drips and drabs of a few hundred here and a few hundred there and telling them they…
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Advice needed on redundancy
Hi, I applied for a job a couple of weeks ago and got a phone call the next day saying someone was coming out to see me. He turned up at my house the next day and said he was from an agency, the job was a groundworker/labourer working for a transport company. He had about 20 sheets of paper of which I read and signed, they…
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I want to start a career in Hospitality & Catering
Hello, I am 21 and I have been considering starting a career within the hospitality and catering sector, but I do not have a clue where to start and i'm hoping someone can guide me in the right direction! I have GCSE's, and 2 AS Level's in Business Studies & I.C.T I have not had any work experience as I had my first child…
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Partner off sick for a month - are we entitled to any benefits?
Hi I hope somebody can help, my partner is currently suffering from 2 slipped discs in her back and is struggling at work. She has been suffering from it for a few months and has needed to take a number of days of work but the problem is that she only gets statutory sick pay and we cant afford to live on this. She has had…
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Getting sacked due to a rumor??
Hello, Last week I returned to a bar where i used to work 2 years ago, yesterday i got sacked.. Apparently all returning staff are to be vetted by head of security, apparently when i left there was a rumor started that i put my ex gf into hospital (she used to be a supervisor there) now this is 100% false.(rumor was…
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work placements?
Im at one of these career/training places that the jobcentre sends you too. I have to write down the names 10 companies and I think that they(jobcentre training place) then contact these companies to see if they will take me on as an unpaid member of staff for a month or so. (although from what I gather they tend to just…
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is there such a job?
Hi everyone!! anyway i havt got any qualifications just my gcse's. i havnt worked since i had my first child 5 years ago my youngest is almost 4. in september my youngest goes to full time school, and i'd like to be able move in with partner and contribute to us living, to do that i need to find a job! i havn't much family…
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Am I entitled to Job Seekers Allowance?
Hi, I have been running an online ebay business for a year now therefore I am registered as self-employed. It was doing fairly well but in recent months I have not been making very much and now need to find full time work. I want to keep running the business as it is still making a profit just very little. Could I be…
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Application form help
I am applying for senior admin position and am struggling to fill in the application form. For Part 7 of the form it says to read the person spec first to find out what skills, knowledge and experience they are looking for. The form is split into the following sections; and I have put the job spec next to each one. And my…
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InterExec - good or bad idea for us 'normal' people?
One of my friends is (or was) a high flying senior executive who recently got made 'redundant'. Judging by her generous pay-off, it sounds like an unfair dismissal. Anyway, long story cut short, she went to a company called InterExec. This is not from personal experience by any means (they're a bit out of my league as…
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Can company reduce wages by so much?
Hi all, I am new to the site and need help! I need advice whether my employers can legally request that I change from 'paid by the hour' to a fixed salary and at the same time 'offer' me a salary which will mean me taking a drop of £8,000 annually. My contract at present states 'paid by the hour'. I was prepared to take a…
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Is my contract unfair?
Hi, I have recently handed in my notice at work, i have another thread going about my notice period but this is a different issue. My contract of employment states that i am required to study towards my ACCA exams and complete this within 10 years (i have been there 6 years), and all study costs will be paid by my…
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Any point applying for the same job again?
I've noticed this a few times now when scouring the job vacancies in fine detail, You apply for a job don't even get an interview you get a rejection email or letter, then a month or so later the same job advertised again, if your rejected the first time is there any point applying the second time around?
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Advice Needed on Job Offer & Job Turn Down
Hi all, My partner was offered an interview for a job she had applied for online at a well known company in the local area. They offered her an interview which went well and was told they would contact her the day after to say if she has got it or not. The store manager phoned back the day after to say she had been…
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Unpaid / Paid work experience, tips and advice needed!
I currently work full time as a sales adviser at a retail chain where i have worked for 4 years ( part time throughout university now full time ) and as the it manager at a company where i used to live near my parents house. I am a very technical minded person and would say i am reasonably clever, but my problem is i am a…
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Need help over new contract....
At work we are being forced into signing new contracts and those of us that dont are being told theres no work for us and so will be out of a job. Im happy to sign a new contract but there saying we must pay £20 each week out of our wages for future tool breakages, loss of equipment, damage to vehicles etc. I've worked for…
