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Job Interviews - losing confidence
I have had quite a few interviews since becoming unemployed in May, I started off confident and thought I did well in interviews.....clearly I didn't as I was rejected. But now I find myself resigning to the fact I won't get the job before I even get to the interview. I never know what to say or I say the wrong thing and…
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Do you have to put a Receipt Number on a receipt?
Hi all, If you are self-employed and not VAT registered and have a custom made receipt book made; Does it have to contain a numbering system by law etc? Or can you just have it whereby you put a date paid, customer address details, services provided, etc so that the Date is sequential as opposed to a numbering system.…
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I thought bad references were illegal?!
Or is this just one fo those things that "everybody knows" but isn't true? I lost my job with a power company for trumped-up reasons but on the day i was let go i found another job with a different company. (Debt collection agency, please don't hate me!) Anyway, the new place let me work for them for a total of 3 weeks…
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Re: Can your employer remove you due to unlikability?
Hi There, I have worked with my present employer for a few years now but in all my 121's my personality comes under question. You see I work hard, am polite, reliable do my job but I don't share anything in common with my co-workers. To be fair if another opportunity came up I would leave, but in this market there aren't…
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Best temporary work
I'm not working at the moment after my last contract came to an end, so am available, but in what I normally do there isn't a lot of work, so I'm thinking of getting some temporary work that may allow me to go for interviews and finish at say one/two weeks notice. Would it be best to go for part-time temp work? I'm really…
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Holidays and overtime
Hi, one of my friend works for morrisons and its 5 over 7 days.so doesnt always get weekend off. last month he booked 2 holidays lets say Friday and saturday and monday and tuesady were none working days(same week) but he worked on tuesday(overtime) so in total worked 4 days and was suppose to be paid for 2 holidays. but…
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Agency worker - paying 2 lots of national insurance is this right?
Hi hope someone can help me :) Basically my partner got a job through an agency and gets paid weekly. Every week he pays tax and NI which you would normally expect, but also pays the employers NI contributions and also a fee of £22.50 (because he earns over a certain amount) Does this seem right? hes worked for agencies…
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Favoured Candidate Problem
Passing this on for a friend, hoping to get some alternative insights from you lovely people with more experience of office politics than I have: Hi, my immediate boss has just been promoted and I would love to have the opportunity to go for her old job. Trouble is, she has a personal friend at my level also who is clearly…
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I've been overpaid by my employer
I reduced my working hours in July this year, from 37.5 hours a week to 32 hours a week. The changes were all organised by my area manager, and she did all the paperwork etc. At the same time I came out of the pension scheme and reduced the amount of childcare vouchers I was claiming. All these changes were due to me…
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Why would a company I don't work for pay me?
I went for an interview and induction last month but decided it wasn't for me as the hours were too awkward to fit around school and I'd be paying out more for childcare than I'd be getting from the job. I let them know but at the end of last month they paid a small amount into my bank. I didn't think anything of it…
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Advice Please
I have just returned from 9 months maternity leave and have returned to my office in a total nightmare. I am an office manager for a small building contractor and work solely in the office, where all other employees are out on site. The lady who was covering my maternity leave was supposed to be an experienced…
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The Work Programme New Thread
What do you actually do when you attend? How long are you there? Do you find advisors try and get you to apply for jobs where its clear you havent got the experience and wont get it? How helpful or not is it?
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Bonus by cheque
At my work we are handed a Christmas bonus on our last working day before Christmas by cheque. We have to go cash it. Then in January it is added onto our payslip and tax and ni taken off. Is this correct? It means that our pay in January is less than normal as we're paying tax and NI on the gift we were given in December.…
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Are you allowed to pay yourself for leaflet work?
Hi All, If you are self-employed and deliver your own leaflets through peoples doors; are you allowed to pay yourself for these deliveries? Also. If you did not want to deliver them yourself and instead asked a friend to deliver them; would you have to declare the money you paid to the friend? And if so, as what?.....a…
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Long term temp public sector worker 10% pay cut with no notice or discussion
I am a long term temp ( 3 years) working for a London borough, who has decided without warning notice or discussion to effectively cut every temps pay by 10% as of next Monday. Also I had to learn about it from a collegue who happened to notice the change of rate on his timesheet. !!!! I am totally disgusted this is the…
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I can't do my job
Hello, I work in IT and started working for a large corp about 18 months ago. About three months ago I managed to gain promotion into a more senior/technical position, in a different discipline from my area of expertise. Unfortunately I believe that I am ill suited to the new job, and do not feel that I have received the…
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Proof of benefit certificates required for new job
I've had 3 claims in the last 5 years and my new employers want evidence to cover gaps. They are asking for a JSA certificate which when I rang the JSA line they said it would be posted to me but they couldn't email?? Is this a lie? I hate dealing with these people they are beyond useless. I had a claim for incapacity…
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Work makes me sick
In more ways than one :wink: OK so this is slightly hypothetical since I'm planning to retire, but let's have a debate anyway. My work demands that I travel internationally a lot - usually two long-haul flights a month. Every time I travel long-haul I get a cold / virus of varying magnitude. It can just be the sniffles and…
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working christmas
Working Christmas and it falls on my days off:mad: holiday year ends Dec no time for days off ! Where do I stand? Many thanks
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entitlement to carry forward holidays
a friend of mine is on long term sick and has therefore alot of holiday remaing, the holiday year end being 31/12/11 he is currentlty receiving 2/3rds of his income via personal health insurance he has received a letter from work saying he can only carry 5 days holiday forward, however he can use the rest of the holiday…
