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Holiday calculater
Hi, I've just started a new contract moving away from working within the agency but they aren't picking up my calls or answering my emails regarding holiday payments i have left to be paid. I started on the 21st of June 2023 and it ended on Friday 17th of November 2023, For the first 12 weeks I was informed that you get…
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Teenage son and jobs
My teenage son (15 just turned 16) for the last two years has had a paper round. It's £20 cash on a friday. About 5 months ago he got a job working one shift a week in a pub kitchen. I've just found out he's getting taxed 25% for the pub job because he has 'a second job'. Should a £20 paper round count as a job. It's cash…
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Half Days and Annual Leave
My office has flexi hours and has a half day Friday (Core hours: Mon-Thur 9 to 4, Fri 9-1, 39 hour week). So I work 7 to 4/4.30ish Mon to Thur and 8 till 1 Friday.I wanted to take a Friday off but to do so, I need to use a full day annual leave because they don't want people just taking every Friday off for the year.That…
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Fall
Fall at work
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Possible Removal/Change of Bank Holiday
I work in non essential retail in Scotland (charity shop). We have closed every Christmas Day/Boxing Day/1st January/2nd January since I started, as far as I know no shop in Scotland has ever opened those days. There are now non-confirmed rumours that the regional manager wants shops to open on the 2nd January in line with…
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max age to do a physical job.
I'm 55 and done mostly physical jobs for last 10 years.im slim with some good muscles. , current job is full-time physical with bosses I hate., current workmates are 65 ,slow and lazy and hide a lot. but I feel I get tired now after a shift( sleep is the most important thing in my life,sad eh?)( I'm no fun).,( I've noticed…
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Change in Employment (secondment)
Hi, I recently started (in the last month) a new role within the same company that I work for, as a secondment opportunity. This will last 6 months, working the same hours but the pay is slightly better. Do I need to notify Universal credit of the change on my journal or as a change in my circumstances? Many thanks for any…
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wages
Hi, need some advise please, have been in employment with the same employer for the last 6 years, have never signed a contract but was based upon a zero contract, where if there was work it was offered, we were paid the last friday of every month, and have been for the last 6 years, however i recently decided to change my…
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Does this sound realistic or dodgy?
Years ago when I was just starting out I had a colleague doing the same job as me on a similar salary. The wage was poor and I remember one lunchtime he pointed out something that needed repairing on his car but he couldn't afford to repair it. One day he had enough and quit. He told me he wanted to be an entrepreneur and…
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Teacher pay rise not been paid
I'm a teacher. As you're probably aware, teachers were granted a pay rise after lots of strike action. It was due to be paid starting autumn 2023. Usually, there's a couple months of delay before we receive them and we get a backdated increase in October or November. Having checked the payslips today, my colleagues and I…
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No referees
I'm nearly 59 and I've not been employed for over 20 years. The last job I had was a cleaning job, which I left to have a baby. Since then I've been doing a bit of self-employment which hardly makes any money, and last year I was really unwell and couldn't even do that. So I thought it might be an idea to get a cleaning…
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Issues to be aware of when going PAYE while already being self employed?
Are there any tax surprises that I need to be aware of ... I have run my own small gardening business (sole trader/no VAT) for 3 years and complete my self assessment annually online paying my tax and NI. I have been offered a 9 month contract carrying out a project for a private school (2 days per week) so will be…
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Late career start in law - how convince firms I'm a good paralegal hire?
Hi there, I'm in my mid-30s and looking for work as a paralegal, but have no prior experience in law nor a particularly strong CV, or a proper career for that matter. After university (BSc in business admin) (just about 2:1) I worked for a few years in business admin, then started a business, had to close said business and…
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NHS HCAS and moving work base
Hi all, my partner's NHS trust have moved her work base in her contract, such that she does not get the fringe/inner/out HCAS or London weighting. She an AfC member of staff. So basically she started a new job and the people before her in the same role were entitled to HCAS, but for my partner's contract, they made her…
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Do employers have a duty of confidentiality to employees?
Do employers have a duty of confidentiality to employees? I was dismissed a while back. I thought the reasons were unfair and I put
in a claim for unfair dismissal. Before my claim got to the Tribunal, my ex-employers
offered to settle. I agreed, but that
meant I had to sign a 15-page Settlement Agreement, agreeing my…
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Choosing a university petition
I have always thought that one advantage of student loans is that the Government know how much people earn after studying and if eighteen years old knew this they could make better choices about what to do. What do people think about this as a petition on the Government petitions website? Personally I would have studied…
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Part time workers rights
My organisation is currently going through a restructure and I am potentially at-risk of redundancy. I am a part time member of staff. I asked a question yesterday during a formal consultation session as to whether part time staff would be able to retain their part time hours if they were successful at interview or slotted…
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Employed or self employed
Hi i have been working for the same person for 5 years now. I have been told by people that I should be PAYE but not sure what the differences are. Any advice would be appreciated. I am a landscaper/gardener I only worked for same person he tells me on a weekly/daily bases where to work and what to do. i wear his branded…
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Money Moral Dilemma: Should I pay my colleague for the ticket I thought she'd given me for for free?
This week's MoneySaver who wants advice asks... On a recent work trip, I was asked if I wanted to join an excursion some of the colleagues I was there with were going on. It cost £100 and, as I didn't feel I'd enjoy it enough, I declined. Then my colleague who organised the trip couldn't make it, and as the ticket was…
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Government paid notice period
So the company I worked for 10 years went into liquidation at the end of October. Both our redundancy and our notice period will be paid by the government. We have been told by the liquidator that if we start a job juring this period we will lose the remainder of the notice period payment . However what he can not answer…
