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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).…
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Feeling trapped in NHS role and unsure what to do next!
I have worked within the NHS for over 9 years now in a non-clinical Band 4 role. My work centres on arranging the purchasing, servicing and repair of medical equipment as well as ensuring asset information is correct and reporting KPIs (Key Performance Indicators.) I am growing to really dislike my job now having done it…
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Sickness pay
need some advice to how sickness pay works . I’m looking to find out how the time frame works . So when does a period of sickness drop off to not be included in that year ? So say you were off April 1 /2023 for 50 days and returned 20th may 23. When does that then not get counted into a sickness period of full pay for 6…
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Temp for > 2 years - rights?
Hi all A colleague of mine at XYZ council has worked for >2 years as a temp through Adecco on a temp contract / series of short-term contracts (not sure which but definitely there has not been a break in her working at the council during this time). Now the council is saying to Adecco 'we don't want any temps to be here…
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New job, but still nervous after a month
So I started as Asda 3 weeks ago and dont feel its gone well. Theyve been great with the hours and changed them to what i wanted but the job itself is not great and i dont feel im getting better. Im on the self scan area at a massive store. The first week i was kept with someone but the second I was left on my own so just…
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Application form asking "Have you ever been subject to disciplinary action" - what to write?
Hi, I was employed in the council for 10 years then applied for a job that sounded great in the private sector. My manager ambushed me with a dismissal letter 4 months into my employment after I raised some safety concerns about the workload and the few lies they told me about what my job would be and they just asked me to…
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Unfair employer
Paying us the NMW, which we accept but then paying only for hours they THINK the work should be done in, want to pay us 2.5hrs for 3.5hrs work, actual pay therefore less than the NMW is this an ACAS issue?
