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N.I question re:qualifying years for state pension
Am I right in thinking that if a person earns at least £112 per week they are covered as far as N.I contributions go towards the 'qualifying years' for the state pension, even though you don't actually pay any N.I until you earn £155+ ?
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Job after getting sacked?
Hey. So it hasn't happened yet, and I'm not saying it will... just a possibility. I'm in a job that I've come to find I'm not very well suited to, and I think management are starting to see this too. I'm looking for other more suitable jobs and making applications, BUT if I was dismissed, would I be up that well known…
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No payslip from last employer
Hi, I left my previous job 3 weeks into February, the pay date was a week after and I never received my last payslip, I got a letter a couple of days after I left saying I would get my payslip and p45 posted to me but only got the p45, I also did not get paid on the paydate, I do understand I may not have been due pay as I…
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Minimum wage - petrol - explain please?
My friend has just had an interview for a 16 hour a week term time only job. Pay is £7 an hour - BUT she gets no reimbursement for driving all around the area every day to different peoples homes for this job. It's expected to come out of her wages. Is this legal, as I'm pretty sure that makes her pay under minimum wage?…
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Serious Question?
How much do you MSE staff posters earn? On this forum, it's either a troll post or a staffer that creates the majority of the traffic. So what does it pay? Now that I have some time on my hands I feel that I may as well be earning . . . I could perhaps school you in how to make it less obvious . . . I mean, it's not like…
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Accident, Compensation & my employer, advice please!
Hi guys, I hope I'm posting this in the correct section. I'm a Sales Manager for an Electrical wholesaler and I love my job. 18 months ago, I bought an angle grinder that we had for sale, that was made by a German manufacturer. Unfortunately I had an accident at home whilst using it on the 25th April and the safety switch…
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Admin Online courses?
I have been applying for office jobs as I need a change of career to get out of retail and food industry; I need something more secure and better paid. I don't have any office experience and being aged 30 that probably goes against me. I have experience using Microsoft Office having run my own home business but I was…
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Promotion revoked, new contract and rate of pay issued
On behalf of partner who works in social care. Started as frontline support worker and was promoted to "Service Co-ordinator" which was meant to involve managing client care plans and various other office related work. Job never really took off - he only managed about 16 hours per week in the office and was always dragged…
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Help me understand please!
Hi All, Just a quick question on behalf of my wife. She is a part time worker and job shares with another lady. They both work 4 days a week and cover each others days off. Now my wife has a Friday off and her colleague a Wednesday off. The job is based in an office in a school and every so often the school is closed on…
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Please delete - re posted on small business, txs
I normally work on a daily rate but recently got an offer of a new contract and some strange (to me) set up was offered. The client wants to pay per hour - it would be daily rate/7.5 hours so theoretically mathematically at least this would make no difference BUT... It is already at half my usual daily rate but not much…
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Signed up with Driving School with them knowing I had 6 point, to be told NO!
Hi, just looking for some advise, I decided I wanted to be a driving instructor so after some research I went with Bill Plant driving school ( ovbs not enough) . Paid the deposit ect to get started and my DBS came back clear. I had told 2 people from the company that I had spoken to that I had 6 points, they both said it…
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Temporary contract, termination/extension procedures?
Hi. I started a job back in September 2014 on a temporary contract to en on 31st August 2015. Since then I had a title rise and a significant increase in my working hours. I was part time when started and am now full time. I had an appraisal after 6 months and received good feedback so I juts assumed my contract would…
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Overworked and understaffed
Hi all, I'd really appreciate some advice on a situation at work. I work in an office and on my section there is a total of 3 workers (including myself). We have a deputy manager and a manager. My section has lost 3 workers over the past 3 to 4 years but the work is still intense and I would say we need at least 1 more…
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Tax Code & Rebate Issue
Hope someone could provide some aadvice... I was made redundant in November 2014. In March 2015 I applied for a Tax Rebate using a P50 and sent off my P45 with it. In April 2015 I started working again however without my P45 I was unable to provide enough detail to be placed on the correct Tax Code so was placed on "0T". I…
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Tax and maternity leave
I have started to research online but my 5 week old son is rather unsettled Basically I started maternity leave on 27th March and was TUPE to another company on the 30th. I have received a letter to say that my tax code this year is br. This means I will pay 20% on my £500 maternity monthly pay. Surely this can't be right?…
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Genuine prospect of work
Hello two weeks ago I supported a genuine prospect of work. Some of you know for sure how long I have to wait for an answer? Thank you very much I went to jcp for a genuine prospect of work It is the consequence of the 3 months of eea jsa
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Agency not paid me (being screwed over)
Use to work as a agency cleaner and that job ended and now I have a different job. The last week I worked as an agency cleaner I forgot to send my timesheet to agency because I was upset and panicking about loosing my job. Anyway as soon as I remembered I sent them the time sheet which was a month and a half ago and they…
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Sick note / unauthorised absence question?
Hi guys My dr has just signed me off for another week until 18th may. I'm 99.9% sure I'll still be too unwell for work by this date. The earliest appointment I can get is the evening of 19h may. If I ring in sick on the 19th may and receive a sick note that evening and get it in by the 20th may would the 19th may be…
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Pay bonus v Time and a half?
Hi. Please can someone with better maths skills than me (not difficult) help me work out an issue with my employer? Basically, up until this last month, for any overtime that we did, we were paid time and a third which worked out as £13.38 per hour. We then received an extra £50 bonus at increments of 20, 40 and 50 hours,…
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Advice please
I am a paid employee (carer) of a charity. One of my clients recently passed away and his daughter wanted to contact me. The office told her to contact me via them. A few days later, I received a thank you card from the daughter via the office. The card was not in its original envelope, which was not forwarded to me, and…
