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What is the maxmium amount of contracted working hours allowed in the UK?
Hi all, I work within a contact centre, and currently work a total of 45 hours a week though I am contracted to work 37.5. Normally if I was to take a days as holiday I would have been paid for the full 9 hours I do per day though changes have now been made so I will now only be paid for 7.5 when taking holiday as the…
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Becoming Employed after being Self Employed...
Hi, I am planning on starting my new job the second week of April, It is with an employer that I previously worked for back in April - August 2010, since December 2010 I have been self employed, working from home and I am hoping to continue this on a part time basis when I start back at my old position. The place where I…
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Sick pay (SSP) law - anyone good on it who can help?
I'll try & be as detailed as possible. If you need more information then feel free to ask. I required a minor operation which i discussed with my employer immediately. From the beginning i told them i would be off in the morning - as that's when the appointment was and that i would be back for the afternoon (as i thought i…
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Statutory Maternity Pay|contrat or payslip rules?
Hello, I have a 30 hours per week contract with my employer and my salary is at the rate of £6.19 per hour. In fact, since May 2012 I have always worked more than 40 hours per week and I have paid Taxes and National Insurance. I wonder if my Statutory Maternity Pay will be calculated on what is written on my contract or on…
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Keep in touch days - casual work
Hi, I am employed as a bank nurse for an NHS trust and have just been offered a job as a bank nurse for another company - a private one. I would like to keep both on but do my 10 keep in touch days over both. Can i do this with the new one as they will be my employer too. My maternity allowance finishes in June. Thanks
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Year contract as Apprentice but being made redundant?
My son has been employed since November for an independant electrical retailer as a level 2 retail apprentice, which is due to finish in October. He always knew he wouldn't be kept beyond that date. He has worked really hard and is slightly ahead in the college work (NVQ) for the official qualification. However he had just…
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How best tio use Twitter for job hunting?
Hi Folks I have been unemployed for a while and 'following' some major employers in the region on Twitter. Could soimeone please explain if someone from a company that I am following 'tweets', will I be sent an email alert or would I have to log into my Twitter account in order to find that out. Thank U
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Legal Fees Incurred to Secure my Fees
I used to freelance for a very large public body. They would not pay me fees which I felt certain I was due and so I felt forced to consult a firm of solicitors. This was a year ago now. After unanswered and unco-operative letters they finally informed me I WAS due fees and they aplogised for the delay and paid me. They…
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How would i secure funding for an OU course?
Hi guys My niece (soon to be 21) is looking to do an OU course which is going to cost her £379 in one payment or an extra £100 by instalments. She is currently unemployed and is doing part time voluntary work for a charity shop. All she wants to do is expand her chances of job seeking as the government courses are rubbish…
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Suspension
I have been suspended from work for the last five weeks. I have today received a letter requiring me to go in for a formal interview on Monday 18th Feb. In my written statement I answered all allegations clearly and concisely. Which pretty much reiterated everything I had said in the original interview. I also raised some…
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Rights on refusing to do something
Hi, I am just looking for a little help on something a few of us are having difficulty with in our work place. I work for a gym that uses a company to collect direct debits however if a members payment fails there is an immediate £25 admin fee applied. Which i personally think is horrendous and upon reading this apparently…
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Minimum wage?
Is it lawful for an employer to pay minimum wage and then expect the employee to work over their contracted hours. i.e. get paid for 4 hours/day and expected to work an extra 30-45 mins extra? Can the employee do anything apart from just leaving the job?
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Possible Tax Refund?
Wondering if I could be entitled to a tax refund at the end of the tax year, but im not sure how it's worked out when ive been split between work and JSA 09/01/2012 - 13/08/12 Working, earning 16k a year. my P45 says I earned £7309 during this time, and paid £786 tax. 13/08/12 to Present Jobseekers Allowance. I was…
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Paying back shifts after you have been off sick
As part of the normal working month we have to do a couple of late shifts, which mean you do your normal days work then go back and do a further couple of hours in the evening. You then get the time off the following day. This is done on a rota system. the problem comes if anyone is off sick. You are then expected to do a…
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Work Programme Illegal
Don't know if its true or not but I heard that the work programme is illegal mainly the part of sending people to work with out pay. Because couple of years ago I told to go to work for 13 weeks 9-5 Monday to Friday for an extra £15 a week luckily I found somewhere local so I didn't splash on transport.
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Notice Period?
Hi, been working for a company for just over two years, well effectively one company but it recently went into liquidation with a new company starting up trading exactly the same with us "transferred" as employees. Possibly been offered another job (went looking as my existing employer is basically in its death throws)…
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Can you claim for losses while on the sick
My son has been struck down with a bad case of gastroenteritis. Looks like he will be off work for around 4 or 5 days maybe a week. He works for a security company in a supermarket and I don't think he gets sick pay for the first 4 days and properly doesn't get a full shift allowance while on the sick. As money is really…
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UNISON sick pay
I'm sure a number of years ago I read somewhere if you are on the sick from work you can claim 'sick pay' from Unison. I am about to have a operation and going to be on the sick for 3 weeks. I work for the NHS and while I will get sick pay I will lose my increment pay, for example, I will not get my time and half for…
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Sole trader, several incomes
I took early retirement recently and have been looking to supplement my occupational pension by a variety of jobs. These have been, and will continue to be, ad hoc - I don't want and am not looking for permanent work. For example, I will be spending four week in France this summer as a tour guide. I am also looking for…
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Former employer seeking overpaid wages??
So I got a letter in the post saying that I owe my previous employer £115.17 as an over-payment. I find this odd because when I received my P60 from them my pay was actually 0.00 I've attached the P60 with all the important bits blocked out but you can see there is a figure there for £115.17 and I have £50.00 sharesave…
