Employment, jobseeking & training

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I’ve been offered a job over a 10 month contract and need to calculate my take home pay. The salary calculator I use only calculates over a tax year. There is no full time salary to calculate pro Rata pay, this is a private arrangement. How do I calculate my take home annual/monthly/weekly/hourly pay the below over 10…

Looking for a bit of advice on TUPE as my wife is currently being transferred to a new employer. She’s received her new contract and some of the terms seem noticeably worse than what she currently has. I was under the impression TUPE protects existing terms and conditions, so just trying to understand where we stand. A few…

Hi, The business I work for changed hands at the beginning of March, at which point we were being paid weekly with payroll being run in-house. From the outset, my new employer's intention was to transition to a monthly pay schedule with payroll across the group being run from a central hub which was already in place. Since…

I am an SEO in the Civil Service. For around 2.5 years I've been in a role that has grown successively smaller, so I've been applying for new roles. I've applied for around 40 jobs and I've had 11 interviews and one 'pre-screen'. I'm so fed up with my current role that I'm considering applying for HEO roles (one step down…

My wife has been asked by her employer to retire two months ahead of her planned date, and in return accept an ex-gratia payment of £2,500. There are some office politics going on which I won't go in to. The employer says this payment won't be taxed, as it's ex-gratia. They want a letter from her agreeing to the earlier…

Hi My daughters partner worked at a local pub. He worked for previous owner for approx 8 years as a chef. Worked Tuesday to Sunday with every other week had Saturday evening off and all day Sunday off. Approx. 40 hrs per week doing split shifts. (Never had a written contract from him). The owner left at end of March this…

Hi, the company I work for was recently sold to new owners. We received letters informing us that our pay would be moving from 4 weekly to monthly on the 5th of every month. On the 2nd of April we were informed that we would be instead be paid on the 8th of every month, it has now been moved twice more, to the ninth and…

A friend has been working in a shop where there has been a sewage issue and their toilet area has been creating mess for a week. Environment health have been in, apparently the council are liable, but area managers have demanded the team keep working in the store where the sewage in the staff areas continues to be a…

Hi eveyone need some help and fresh eyes on deciding what to do. I’m currently a receptionist and have been all my working life, I’m now 50 years old, I earn decent money, well decent for what I do. I have thought about training to be a phlebotomist for some time and have now been offered a job with NHS band 2 part time…

Hi All, Long time reader, first time poster here. Just wondering if anyone has been in a similar situation during a company restructure - Basically, we are going to be offered new positions but each one is lower paid. I'm currently receiving an allowance which is a percentage of my basic pay, for working shifts. These new…

Asking on behalf of daughter. She works for a company who sells lots of sausage rolls and steak bakes. She was scheduled to work but the key holder for the shift was a no show. No notice and no idea why. Obviously couldn’t clock in as could not get in. She was there but they have not paid her . Can prove. I feel this is so…

Very long story short. May 2025 I was arrested due to allegations made by an ex whom works in same place. I accepted to work from home whilst investigation took place. September 2025 the investigation concluded and no charges was made against me and I was clear of all accusations. It's now March and I am still working from…

I've applied for a role with an advertised salary range and prior to short listing I've been asked to provide my salary expectations. The advertised salary isn't the best and I know I could demand more elsewhere in similar roles but I want this job and I my experience would suggest the upper range so how do I answer the…

If Asda are downgrading a local manager and then suggesting to current staff they will be training them to do said managers role but not pay them extra, they have to accept it or leave, is that legal?

I keep seeing that AI will make us all unemployed. Every time I look online all I see are companies are making staff redundant due to AI. Is there any hope?

I currently have a small role all done online working from home for a few hours a week. Current pay is £300 per month for which I invoice them, I'm registered as self employed and pay voluntary class 2 NI contributions via self assessment to chip away at the years I need to get the full state pension. The business has been…

Anyone do their own self employed tax submissions? Have you looked into the quarterly returns that will be needed from next month?

I changed my job about 6 months ago to give me a better work/life balance working only 24 hours a week. However it is rare that I do just these hours. I haven’t really complained but I work virtually every weekend and a lot of lates which means I don’t see my family much. This year is a special year for the family with…

Hello, I lost my job and a friend in the gym told me about working as a delivery driver. As his company (a subsidiary of Amazon) pays weekly So I searched and found a delivery company a subsidiary of EVRI called AH Logistics I joined Feb 13th and was told. Payments are monthly on the 15th as a self employed driver. Using…