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Are more people applying to college/uni
Just wondered if more people are choosing to apply to college or uni, due to the lack of jobs around at the minute?
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Reduced Benefits on Temporary promotion
Hi to all, Can you guys offer your opinion for a case where an employee is offered a temporary promotion with a pay increase but the benefits pot also provided to the specific higher grade is not included?(by benefits pot I mean things like mobile, car allowance, health care etc.) Isn't that against the equal pay policy?…
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Notice on probation periods? Anyone?
I can't believe tonight has happened. Bear with my story! DH got a job in a call centre back a few months ago, and a team was created with all the applicants. The probation period was 3 months, and everyone in the group had it extended til further notice. One by one the team was dropping like flies after this. The team…
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My workplace is closing before the end of my contract.
I am on a short term contract till the end of the year, however the company employing me are closing their offices as a result of losing a contract. We were to shut for the Christmas break on 23rd Dec, but the office is closing a week before. Only 1 other office will be open after mine closes and that is 50 miles away. I…
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Can you resign whilst on sick notice...if you get a new job?
Quick question...and this is definitely for a mate, and not me - he's asked me but I know nothing about employment law sadly!! He is on short term sick notice at present, and has just been signed off for a longer period (a few weeks), but has just secured a new job whilst on that sick notice as his present employer is the…
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Message for strikers
If you do not like the arrangements for pensions, please quit your jobs and make way for the millions of unemployed who do not mind, and want to work for a living rather than moan. Be glad just to have a job, and if the pension issue bothers you save up.
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Q about going back to work from sick leave on reduced hours
Hi All! Been off sick for a few weeks, my GP says that if/when he signs me back to work it'll be on reduced hours which is probably for the best being 8 months pregnant and all. My question is, if my normal week is 43hrs, and he puts me back reduced hours (say 24-30). Would I get my normal hours pay or reduced pay to match…
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Need to work out annual leave :S help please.
I am on a care agency aside from my main job and have just put the day I have accrued for annual leave in. I need to know how much I will be paid. My shifts on agency are anywhere from 4-14 hours per shift. At £7 an hour. So how many hours should I be paid for that dayI have put in annual leave? the whole 14 or the average…
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Tax Code Change
Just a quickie...I have started a new job and no longer have a company car. Obviously my tax code needs changing but is that down to me or my new employers?
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Bookkeeping courses
I already do basic bookkeeping for myself, I use excel spreadsheets. I thought it'd be a good idea to get a qualification, eventually I'd like to do it as a job so I looked up my local college online and I don't know where to start :undecided There are so many to choose from - do I need bookkeeping or accounting? Can I…
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Unfair payrise system - is it right?
I have found out that my company is offering payrises for promotions (after having been told on numerous occasions that they are not giving out any payrises for any reason due to the economic situation). Can a company give payrises for promotions to some employees and not others? I was given a promotion but no payrise. A…
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JSA or Work Programme?
My temp position is due to come to an end at the end of the year making a total of 8 weeks from start to finish. Before this I was on the work programme, but only for just over a week before landing this job role. Assuming that I haven't got another job to go to afterwards (not looking great so far, but still a few that…
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Tax Query on back pay
I have just heard that after years of negotiating and appeals that I have won a pay award :) I should receive around £11,000 in back pay in one month and I have been told that this will push me into the high tax bracket and I will pay 50% tax on some of it. Even with this back pay my annual salary will only be around…
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Ex-employer continues paying
Hi - Bit of an odd one this. I left my previous job in October, but I've just spotted that I've been paid in full for November. You'd think I'd be pleased, but presumably it's not as simple as that. Does anybody know what the legal situation is, or what I should do now? In particular, I'm self-employed now so I don't want…
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2000 words on why I want the job!
I've just given up trying to complete an online application for a job. As well as 2,000 words on my personal skills, they wanted 1,500 words on my technical ability and 500 words on my leadership skills. I guess it's a good way to whittle down applications but personally I find it completely bonkers! :eek: I should point…
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Getting Started as a (Freelance) Translator
Hi, I have a friend who's finally looking to utilise her skills and become a translator (instead of her current job as a waitress). She speaks 4 languages fluently; English, French, Spanish and Portuguese. She's still young; 22/23 and lives in Brighton. It's all well-and-good approaching company's you think could do with…
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AKC Distribution/Marketing
Hello. I have seen this company advertising on total jobs website akc distribution. (Sorry I am unable to post links) Has anyone on here worked for them, or do currently work for them? Any advice, experiences etc would be welcome. Thanks.
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PAYE error by employers, HMRC claiming underpaid tax
Not sure if I am in the right section, if not, apologies. On the 16th November 2011 I received a letter from HMRC telling me that I had underpaid tax for the period 2010-11 by £109.60, this apparently was due to having two jobs at the same time with both employers applying a PAYE code which gave the full tax free allowance…
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Contract Hours Changes
I am currently working for a minor high street retailer and was told by Asst manager that Xmas Temps are generally retained by company until June . I was not informed of this at interview nor at any time during my employment by store manager. However hours will be extremely variable.I am on a 20 hr contract and this was…
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Absence Management Plan - Unfair?
Hi all, just after a bit of advice. After two bouts of work related stress at the end of last year, my otherwise helpful line manager put me on an absence management plan. I voiced my objections, saying the absences were work related, and an agreement was made that any other absences would be judged on a 'case by case'…
