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Disability discrimination ?
Wonder if anyone can offer advice please. Currently working in mental health and all passed mandatory trust management of aggression course (phyical and theory course) This year the trust has introduced more complex physical restraints to this course and we have been told if we dont pass this and arent likely to in the…
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£33 per month for food!
Due to redundancy I have to try and survive on £33 per month for food. I have and do buy food at the right times, and in the right places, but still struggle...... I'm 52, live alone, with a mortgage, do not want to lose my home, how do I eat for £33 a month? If I get a job interview, I am totally stuffed because i have no…
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New Employment and Benefits
We're about to hire a part time person, would it be of more benefit to the new person to offer the role at 16 hours, or 20 hours, or x hours, in order to 'protect' any state benefits that they may claim - or doesn't it matter?
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Self Employed Working From Home Advice Please
Hi, I work part-time but have managed to secure some work working from home in the evenings also. It'll probably make me about £400 a month max. Can someone point me in the right direction (in simple terms) as to what I need to do. What happens if everything falls through and I end up giving up my working from home. Is it…
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Overpaid
I completed an apprenticeship in february and was employed by the company. I got my first proper paycheck in april as we are paid 6 weeks behind. Every paycheck since then I have been overpaid by atleast £100+ My manager has contacted HR and yet they are still paying me the wrong wage. I keep bringing it to my managers…
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Do I have rights or anything at all/.
HiAll, I don't know if anyone can help me i have been temping for a year and a month and i love my job i have my odd days everyone does but i've been extremly ill this happened on the 31st may I was going to go back to work monday but the doctors provided a sick note stating that that this should be part time only. My…
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Competency based interviews
Hi, Can anyone recommend a good book or other sources of information on preparing for competency based interviews?? Many thanks, Blonde88 :j
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New Enterprise Allowance
Hey everyone, my advisor at the jobcentre has told me about the New Enterprise Allowance and I'd love to set up a business again, so to me this sounds like the perfect way to get off jsa with a bit of support, meaning that hopefully I never need to go into the jobcentre again :j It hasn't started in this area yet, so has…
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Tax advice
Hi guys, I have just finished university :j Just before christmas, I secured a job at a local company here, and worked part time 2 days a week. Initially they paid me by cheque each week, however they then began to pay the money directly into my bank account. They made it clear from the start that it was down to me to sort…
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Thanks to MSE Forum I got a job!!!! YAAAAA!
After trying for almost a year now to find a permanent job I got one last week!!!! I went for a job interview a few weeks ago for a job I saw advertised locally on Gumtree. I wouldn't have thought of looking on there for a job if it had not been for the suggestion of the Money Saving Expert Forum members. I thought it was…
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Returning to work after 10years caring for wife
thankyou for help
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JSA Interview
I've got my first Jobseekers interview at ten to two today and i'm bricking it What do i need to take?
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jobseekers and newly graduated
Hi, I was wondering if anyone knows whether they take into account my student loans and grants that I receieved earlier in the year when assessing my jobseekers claim? I have recently graduated from university and am making a claim for Job seekers but I am concerened that they will look at my student income for the period…
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End of the minimum wage?
[FONT="]This isn't hitting the news hard yet: (I don't understand how it can be on it's SECOND reading, without it coming to the general populations' notice - does this mean that Libdems voted it through and that Labour couldn't be bothered to publicise it?!) [/FONT]The Employment Opportunities Bill, which is being…
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Forced holiday days for Sickness - please help
My friend has been working in her company for a while now (not entirely sure if it's under/over 12 months) and she's just taken very ill. She's been told by her employers that she must take her sickness days out of her holiday allowance. They say that it's written into her contract which she signed - it isn't. I'm…
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Changing name via DeedPoll and new job?
Hi MSE's, I think I've just messed up on a new job:mad: Changed my name via deed poll about 3 months ago, but I haven't used my new name yet. Applied for a job under my old name as a civil servant and was offered the role this morning. I mentioned the change of name to the recruitment department this morning and they were…
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They wont rearrange interview
Hi everyone, hope someone can help. I applied for my ideal job and have been told today by email that I have an interview at 9.30 on Monday. However, I go on holiday tomorrow to Majorca for a week - a holiday which we booked 13 months ago. I informed them of the dates I am away when I applied for the job and have reminded…
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2 jobs - only want sicknote for 1. Can i do this?
Hi i was wondering if anyone could help me. I have never had the need for a sicknote and I am unsure how it works. At the moment i have 2 jobs. 1 full time and the other part time working 10 hours a week. My part time post has become very difficult, I have experienced quite a lot of nastiness and been put in an extremely…
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Pls ignore
Pls ignore...
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Rolling Rota job
Had an interview for a job today. Went really well and think I have a good chance of getting it. Its 2 days (16 hours) on a 10 day rolling rota. She said the days would be Monday and Tuesday and Friday and Saturday. So would I do Mon & Tues then a gap of 10 days and do Fri and Sat then another 10 days before I work again.…
