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Employer Asking for my passport for Amazon Admin
Hi i would be very grateful for any advice.I have been with my employeer 4 months - 2 months before propation ends.They want to add me to their Amazon account as an admin.I 'believe' amazon are now asking for passport ID verification to be an admin on their behalf for security.I am not comfortable with this, and I feel it…
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Advice needed re financial support for daughter
Can someone advise what financial support my 35 year old, single mum, daughter might get if she does a one year, taught, masters degree next year? She is currently in her 3rd year of her BSc. Or would she be expected to go out to work after her BSc. She is striving very hard to give herself the best employment prospects in…
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Mileage claims for outreach workers
Hi, in the team I manage there is consistent lack of understanding about this issue (with senior management also seemingly unsure!). Would love some guidance. I have a team of outreach support workers over a large district. We have one office but mostly they choose to go home to do their admin etc between appointments. The…
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Employee dismissal pay claim
Hello My partner has taken over a limited company and is in the process of dismissing an employee. The employee is claiming she is owed a week in hand pay from when she started, there is nothing in her employment contract about this and has not provided proof of this agreement with the previous owner, where do I stand? She…
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Protected rights. Employer sold company.
Hi Guys A question on protected rights that I believe us employees were given when a large corporation sold our company . This happened probably 20 years ago when we were owned by a major company and they sold us to another company but we were told our redundancy, sick leave period etc would remain the same. We have…
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I need help with my tax I pay as an employee
Would anyone know why I pay 20p more tax every 3 or 4 weeks when my wages are the same each week. Today I received a letter from HMRC to say I owe them £50.40 from the 6th april 2023 to the 5th april 2024 but how is this possible when they take the tax from my wages each week.
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How long would someone need to be on JSA to be allocated a full year of NI credit for state pension?
I'm taking voluntary redundancy next year. I'm intending to take a year or two off work, but I want to make sure I've covered all my options regarding NI credits for building up my state pension. If I was claiming JSA, how long would I have to be claiming it for in order to get a full year of pension on NI credits? Is…
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Retainer - how to play it
There’s significant change (merger) coming to my organisation in January 2025. This has been planned since March 2024. I started in July 2024. All of the existing staff at my level have been here since March 2024. They all will get a 50% annual salary retainer bonus in Jan 2025, however I will not as I want here in March…
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Employer stealing pension money
Have worked at the same business for over 5 years, In May 24 the original company was dissolved & is showing as this on companies house website. A new person took over as director of the business but they are not in the building (I've no idea who they are) On my payslips from June to now the dissolved company is still…
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Proceedings to demand holiday pay owed?
I've posted before about my friend and her appalling employer. Well, now she has a new job and is out of there, but when she got her final pay and eventually the payslip which they didn't send until she requested it, there was no holiday pay on it. She has an email from them stating she can take 5 days holiday during her…
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19 days of sickness calculated cero pay!
Please someone that that could help me? My sick note was from 19 August to 13 Sept counting 19 days. and this is the calculation on my Sept Payslip. (gross salary is £2572.50) ( my work is 9 to 5, and counted as 40 hrs a week, but I was never paid by hour) Occup sick 1187.31 sick (hrs) 91(hrs) rate (-14.8413) - 1350.76 SSP…
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Job offer, unsure what to do?
Hello all, In a bit of a predicament job wise. Long story short I'm in a management position, been with current company for 6 months, came here on about £6000 a year less than previous employer due to it being a horrific place. I enjoy it here, work well, there's a few opportunities for me to progress, potentially, and a…
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Employer refusing to update HMRC with correct tax information
Colleagues in 15 local authorise are struggling to claim back a tax refund (due to paying tax on back pay received in the wrong tax year). HMRC are telling us that our employers need to inform them of this issue but our employers are telling us that they are under no obligation to give HMRC this information. This has been…
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Anyway Else Finding it Really Hard to Get a Job?
I am in my early 50s, have Degrees in Business, IT, and Marketing, and very varied work experience from skilled to manual warehouse type labour. I only returned to job seeking at the beginning of this year, after being in stable employment since the 90s. Returning to the job market, was a shock. It seems that the majority…
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Change of position and responsibilities
Hi Iv been with a new company for 3 months in a manager position I applied for a lower position role over a month ago with the same business . I have not been given a update when I would be transferred over to the new role until yesterday. I had email from hr that my new role would start on 1 Oct. My boss has gone on…
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Doing Work for colleagues /Workers outside of Workplace
Hello I work for a large company and looking for advice if it usually ok to do work for work colleagues outside of work hours during my own time for payment?
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HMRC say I work for someone that I dont!
Don't know if this is the right forum, but this has happened to me twice now.... I have just received another letter from HMRC informing me of my tax code. I had one a couple of months ago. On there, along with my actual current employer there is some construction company listed. Dismayed, I contacted HMRC who said they…
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Training agreement
Hi. I completed some gas training in April just my 5yr renewal. About a month after the training was completed my employer presented me with a training agreement. The training agreement was basically me agreeing to pay back the full cost of the training if I left the company within 12 months. I was told to sign the…
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Tupe negotiated benefit
I was working for a company until 2/11/2020 where a new company won the contract and I was Tupe’d across to the new employer. Under my old company I was provided with a car and fuel card which I paid the BIK on both. The fuel card covered both business and private miles. The new company only provides employees with a car…
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Holiday pay
Hi everyone, hope someone can help my son out please. He has just been dismissed from work(fair enough). He has been given his 1 month notice, but they have told him not to work it. He is owed approx 15 days holiday pay but they have said that he has to take this during his notice period(thereby saving themselves money).…
