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Self-employed subcontractor... any entitlements?
Hi, I am an electrician. I have been subcontracting for a company for approx 2.5 years. In this time, I have asked to be employed at least 3 times (never in wirting). To date, I am still self employed. In the time I have been working for the company, several other electricians have been employed (and some of them have left…
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Overpaid holidays deducted at living wage rate when originally paid at minimum wage?
Good Evening, Not sure if this is the correct board but kind responses would be gratefully received. My partner has been offered a new job and is therefore leaving his current employer. He has been informed that he has taken more holidays than he is entitled to (because of the shortened January - May period he is working…
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Self employed Courier Driver
I have an interview to become a self employed courier driver next week, the rough details of the job are £105.00 per day, working 5 days over 7 ( 6 days if overtime Is available ), £167.00 per week to rent ford transit van ( which i will need to ). I have never been self employed before, my current job is multi drop…
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Huge overpayment by employer
Just been with a colleague to a meeting with employer. Friend was off sick for several months and sent in sick notes to the head office. Kept getting paid - has now found out she was only due SSP. She should have realised - hadn't been working here very long and the contract was clear. On the other hand she was on strong…
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P60 Pay & Tax amounts
On my P60 the amount for Pay "In this employment" is the total of my Gross Pay from my payslip + the amount my employer contributed to my Company pension. Is this right? This means on my P60 the Tax deducted figure is low compared to the Pay figure, as it's the Tax deducted amount based on my Gross Pay. Does this mean I…
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Sick Pay
Are there any standard rules re sick pay? I haven't had a sick day since 2010, but I had to have one yesterday due to flu (it started on Friday). I work for a solicitor and have done for the last 12 years.
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Civil service Initial Sift Test
Hi, I was just wondering if anyone has been recently employed by the civil service (in an AO position) and took the initial sift test? I passed the test but the generated report said that I only scored better than 48% of other applicants that have previously taken the test. Does anyone know what the threshold is for…
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Employer changing hours
My partner started a new job last September which he was really excited about. Having worked in the same industry since he was a teen, it was a new job doing something different that he'd worked really hard to get. When he was made the offer he was told which shift he would be working (9am - 6pm) which we were absolutely…
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Started new job, contract arrived in post - states wrong pay!
Hi, So, I have started a new job and gone full time (a jump from 3 days a week). Salary agreed with manager (NHS, and agreed to put me on same spine point) but verbally. Contract arrived today, in the post, and salary is stated at bottom of band (I am at the top). This means I would be working FT for not much more than my…
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Bullied at work due to going on holiday with work colleague!
Recently I went on holiday with a work colleague from another team, who I get on well with. This doesn't seem at all out of the ordinary, and it really isn't! However many people at the organisation that we work at sees fit to harass us because we have done this (they don't actually know we have for sure, they are just…
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School Job Problem
Hello MSE, I have a problem and I wonder if anybody could give me any advice on it.
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Office Worker Survey: Only 40% of staff like their boss
FreeOfficeFinder have recently released a survey of over 1,000 office workers. Full results: http://www.freeofficefinder.com/article/what-do-you-think-of-your-boss-survey-results Quite a few decent findings on here, including: Women bosses are liked more than men bosses. Around 40% of people think their boss is bad at…
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Starting own business, best way?
Do you record every piece of money you receive in a book and submit this to the HMRC at the end of financial year? Where do you keep all your receipts for things you offset against tax and money coming in? If I register for tax credits, what forms do I need, what do I fill out? I know you have to do many hours to qualify…
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Job Offer Mistake
Hi everyone In desperate need of advice... My wife had a job interview last wednesday and was offered the role on the spot and told she would recieve a call the next day from HR. Following day she receives the call, and is offered the job officially at a salary of £30k a year....Weekend she gets the offer and contract…
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Interview video mistake
I am going through an interview process at the moment and one step is to film a 2 minute video about how I would carry out a piece of work. I did this today, previewed it, liked it and submitted it. I then watched it back again and noticed the last half of the very last word is cut off! I'm pretty sure this wasn't the case…
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I could be facing dismissal, advice needed please
Hello, basically i've been working at a residential home for people with severe and multiple learning disabilities for coming on 6 months now and in all honesty it has been a baptism of fire. and i've struggled alot, ive also had many complaints made against me for conduct issues and most recently I have been suspended…
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Part time jobs for 13 / 14 year olds
Have tried to find a thread on this but couldn't see one. My daughter is keen to earn her own money and I know by law is allowed to work 12 hours per week term time. Do people have any ideas on what she could do? There are no paper rounds available at present, she has mentioned online surveys but I'm not at all keen on…
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Opt back In to Working Timed Dikrective
Help Anybody I gave my employer (a security company) 1 months notice of my right to opt back in to the WTD to reduce my working hours to 48.(I currently work a rotating shift pattern of 7 on/4 Off - 7 On/3 Off and each shift is 12 hours) There was no specified notified notice period when I Opted Out and I thought that a…
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Jobs that save other companies time
Hello, I have always been interested in suggesting new ideas or new processes in the companies that I have worked in. My background is in IT and I have achieved a 2:1 in Computer Science and have worked within an IT department for 4 years mainly doing programming. I have been temping for about 2 years since I left the job…
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Miss my job center appointments for job training?
so the job center has put me on weekly and i have 2 appointments this week but i have applied for this job and have got it but they are expecting me to come in 5 days a week for 4 weeks full training but i will get paid work after i spoke to them and they said they can let me go to sign on my sign on day but it cant be…
