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Company withholding pay
I handed in my notice a few weeks back. My employer wasn’t happy about this but there has been a lot of change recently, they haven’t been taking any engineers opinions on board so I’ve found something better suited. I planned on working my entire notice and leaving on good terms, though actions from senior management have…
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6 month notice to get paid bonus
my employer has told us that if we don’t sign a new contract with a new 6 month notice period (regardless of where you go) we won’t be paid any bonus or be eligible for the bonus scheme. It seems excessive. Is this allowed?
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Substantive Role NHSP Help!
Been told when joined that since already done my training with NHS Hub that it covers the NHSP training but getting emails saying its going to expire just wondering if you are a Substantive role do you have to do both training?
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Claiming Expenses
Hi I currently claim the HMRC AER for my EV company car for all business mileage, and most of my car charging is done at home. However, for the times when I do need to charge on public chargers, the AER does not cover the true cost and I end up funding business mileage from my own pocket. Am I within my rights to submit a…
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47, low wage, frustrated
Hello! I'm 47 and just started my new job, 25K pa. I'm frustrated, as I really want to earn a better salary. I came to this country nearly twenty years ago, I worked in some low-paid jobs and run my cleaning business for nearly a decade . It worked well for me, as I was raising my young son. I applied for a bank job in…
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Employment Status changed from Employed to Self-employed
I have been doing the same driving job for the past six years, working for an employment agency under a temporary seasonal contract, which could last anywhere between eight and eleven months. They provide drivers for a very specific roll to another international company who themselves are an intermediary and carry out the…
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Off work now formal meeting
Asking for someone else. She has been off work from a well known supermarket for 15 weeks, due to mental health and anxiety issues (suffered since early teens), recently requiring hospital treatment for self harm. She is a single parent with 3 young children under 5. She has had 1 informal meeting and 1 formal meeting with…
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Double notice period - which would apply?
I've been terminated last week, after working 13 months, effective immediately. The employer sent out a letter of termination that states they will pay the notice in lieu (aka PILON), but it doesn't say how much/long so I checked the contract and I'm confused - a single clause has 3 notice periods mentioned: * one week -…
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Returning Company Car
I have just resigned from a role and I have been told that I am now obliged to have to return the company car back to the business. This will involve a 6 hour drive up to the office, and then having to find a way back ( they have offered to purchase a train ticket) I have suggested that the car is collected by means of a…
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Notice period in a temporary job
Hi, Appreciate I’m being selfish but I feel I’m getting ever more stuck in a quiet job, for example on return 2nd January I’d caught up on the ‘Xmas shut down build up’ by 10:30am working alone. You can’t do cleaning to while the time away as there is already a cleaner on site and I don’t want to start doing 2 jobs for the…
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Am I under contract?
In 2021 I was employed by Mu*** D** Ltd with a contract and then the owner of the business transferred my employment to another one of his companies V**** Ltd by giving me a P45 and a new contract. V**** was sold last year and I was given another P45 but no new contract. He started paying me through Mu*** D** Ltd again. I…
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Is this meeting minimum wage?
Hi This is about my partner. I want to know if this meets minimum wage. He works different hours every week and with different days off. He is a coach driver for a small business. He gets £460 a week after deductions. This week, as a typical example he has worked- Monday 11am to 10pm with about 6 hours of this being non…
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Stuck in the middle of a family business fallout?
Unknown to me when I took this job in October I was walking into the middle of a family fallout. I was replacing a spouse who walked out after a fallout. The sibling in question is the HR person, she has cut our hours etc and the other siblings seem powerless to do anything even though we're busier than ever and all…
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How to format CV
Some time ago I had an online session with a job coach both as group and individually. The CV advice was to save in a Microsoft Word 97-03 format and to make it ATS friendly. In my individual session he advised me to keep my CV the same because it was getting me plenty of interviews and my issue was not passing the…
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Handing in notice
I have to hand in my written notice. I'm not 100% sure on what my notice period is. It maybe a month in the contract. That they actually never got me to sign. I think people have left sooner. Do I need to write on my notice letter when my last day of employment will be? Thank yiu
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Disciplinary help
Hello, I’ve currently been suspended for the past 3 weeks and have my hearing next week. HR emailed me my invitation letter along with the investigation notes and witness statements. HR also cc’d in the person who is chairing the disciplinary. Is this allowed as it gives him time to have a pre-empted decision before the…
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Anyone else finding the current job market tough?
I've been keeping a keen eye since before Christmas, Indeed unless you want a care roll or Nursing is useless, anything suitable if at all is miles away, factor in transport wouldn't be doable. I did think it would pick up into new year but it's not happened. Compared to this time last year I had 3 job offers when I was…
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'suggested' i go self-employed
My boss has suggested I become self-employed. He says the business can't sustain me as an employee. This is not what I want, but I feel a bullied into accepting this. We are a small business (2 partners) and me.
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Interpretation of self employment contract
I’m full of a head cold so know i could be going off at the deep end here so am reaching out to see if I am way off base. My self employment contract states that 2.2 The manner in which XXX performs the services is at XXX discretion This is for a tutoring service. Further up in the contract it does state I need to ‘assess…
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Facing redundancy AGAIN! Employment law queries.
Edited now to avoid confusion Position redundant at Site A july 31st 2020, Phone call 11 days into August 2020 to go back to same employer. Rehired on new contract addressed at site B despite sitting at my original desk doing the same role at site A. Start date 1st September 2020, been in their employment since. Now I am…
