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ARC legal
I was recently made redundant and informed my insurance company in Feb 2025 who put me in touch with their legal section ARC legal. When through all the form filling and got a message from them on the 4th of June that they could now now provide legal cover as the policy was started a 25.02.25 and I was notified about…
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Advice required regards employment situation rights - location of work
hi Apologies in advance for long post but bit of story to this one, will keep it as brief as possible but looking for general advice / thoughts regards my situation I am employed by large multinational that has a relatively small presence in UK ~200 employees. I am a middle manager (senior for UK) reporting into a boss in…
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Grievance process
Hi My friend iscurrently going through a grievance process where a grievance has been made against hin. There were 4 allegations of which only one has been upheld. The one that was upheld relates inappropriate comments that he made to a colleague when he was having a discussion outside of work about other colleagues in the…
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National insurance and tax
So I use to pay very little NI and no tax but I’ve been caught up in fiscal drag. If I go from 24 hours to 16 hours I assume I would only pay pension? I believe tax free allowance is 12k and I’d be earning 10k? Currently get £15k so been caught up in tax.
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Preparing and sharing documents for tribunal
Hello, grateful for demystifying the process. I am repping a family friend taking his former employer to tribunal for unfair dismissal (as a pretext to avoid redundancy, if relevant). I’m CIPD qualified but haven’t been through a tribunal process yet. Here’s the only guidance I have from the tribunal - and haven’t been…
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ECOS Car Scheme removal by Gov? What is my company obliged to do?
I work as a Field based Manager and my team and I are all fortunate enough to benefit from the ECOS car scheme at work. The cars are essential for our role an also serve as ou main family vehicles. This allows us to get our company cars through the business at a substantially discounted rate where we do not have to pay BIK…
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HR ADVICE
Hello, I would like if you could provide some advise in regards of few issues that i have at work . I have been working for the same company for the past 16 years although i TUPE twice . Recently I have been signed off from work stress related symptoms as i have been covering double duties due to my colleague retirement.…
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How to enjoy my week off work
I am off work next week and this is the first time I will have had any time off work this year since Christmas, however the person in the office who I cover for when he is on holiday has booked time off for the week I am back off my holiday meaning I will be extremely busy as I will be doing the job of two people. I fully…
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Cover letter help
Hiya I've found a few apprenticeships that would suit me but I've never written a cover letter before my last job just wanted a CV no cover letter can anyone help with advice or tips for writing a cover letter? One of them is at my old collage that I love should I mention I was a former student and my love for the collage?
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Engineering recruitment consultancies that have engineers "stuck" in contract for years?
Hi,I was once put forward to work for (or rather, "via") a very big international engineering consultancy asan electronic engineer. They told me that they would always pay me a wage of £50k per year...and when inbetween jobs, they would also pay me then aswell(!!)This actually worried me because if they were doing that,…
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SAR specifics
I have requested a SAR from my previous employer but they've said my name alone produces too many items and have specifically stated that Teams and email messages that include my name is too broad. The refer to ICO guidance effectively stating that they don't have to do this as guidance suggests: “Data can contain…
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Interview for a position with a higher wage
I'm in the fortunate position to have an interview with an external company and the wage is £38k and I'm on £33k. So a step up. I believe I can do aspects of the job because it's similar to my own but also some I'm not familiar with, as it's more of an officer position whereas before I've done admin. The company have…
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Contracted for 35 Hours, But Told to Log Off Unpaid – Where Do We Stand?
I work remotely as a Customer Service Advisor for a bank, but I’m contracted through an employment agency. I'm paid directly by the agency and can leave the assignment at any time by giving 24 hours’ notice. Recently, the contractors working under the same agency (myself included) received an email stating that: “Rather…
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Please can someone help me with my grammar and English.
I wrote a promotion message but can someone please help me privately with correctly the grammar and spelling and make it make sense please as English is not my first language thanks .
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Accident at work, should I claim?
Hi, my son is a 21yr old plumbing apprentice who has worked for the same company since he was 17. Recently he was subcontracted to working on a construction site fitting all the new builds plumbing. The site foreman left him alone onsite at 3pm to go and get his wing mirror fixed, he asked him to shut the site up. At 4pm…
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Travel Expenses
My employers have forced a return to office, my contract states that my normal place of work on a Thursday is home and I have made it clear that I am working under protest and I don't agree to any change of terms and conditions to my contract. Could I claim company mileage and travel time for the Thursdays I am now in the…
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Benefits allowance
Hi where I work I get 20% benefits allowance. we can get benefits including a shopping card which we can top off. Is it the case it’s beneficial to get the shopping card as if I took more of the benefits card as cash I would be taxed. However if I topped up a shopping card I wouldn’t be taxed?
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Employment Tribunal - my experience
Forumites may find this impossible to believe - but it happened to me.Back in the early 1990s I was working as an IT tutor and had a long list of adult applicants for my courses. As a former government scientist my experience and knowledge of computing at that time was 'pretty good'. Then I was called in to see the boss…
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About To Lose My Job, Any Lawyers Around?
Hey afternoon everyone, I'll try to keep this short but basically I work as a security guard with a Front Line SIA Door Supervisor Licence. In the summer of 2024 I had gone out for the work do and gotten drunk ended up buying some cocaine from somewhere in Soho London, ended up in some alleyway about to take a key and 6…
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New Style Jobseekers Allowance (nJSA)
Q1) - Is it "Jobseekers Act 1995" that is used to determine if nJSA is awarded? (in particular in interested in Contribution Based nJSA) Q2) - On the assumption that the answer to Q1 is YES, then Q2 is: Where do they get the information from to base their decision on? (The legislation reads " (1) The conditions referred to…
