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Employment health questionnaire advice??
My partner has his dream job offer and has received a log in to complete an online pre-employment health questionnaire. No major issues with his health but he is considered obese in accordance with the BMI scale. The job is manual however he is very able to carry out the duties and has always been this size when working in…
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New umbrella company - worried about tax avoidance
I’m with a new umbrella company and just noticed that my payslip doesn’t reflect what I’m being paid into the bank account. Tax avoidance red flags. I want to nip it in the bud but with a sensible way not going there with guns blazing. I was wondering what recommendations people might have on how I can approach this?
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Tax rates
I am working in a hospital and have a regular contract that I get my pay through and is taxed 'normally' I'm under any higher rate threshold. Over Christmas I did some additional work that got paid on a bank contract, that although it appears to on the same tax code appears to have been taxed much more heavily about 200 on…
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Help urgently needed LEGAL
Any help would be greatly appreciated. To cut a long story short I resigned on the 2nd January (in person on a bank holiday) my boss did not take the news well as I was performing well and bringing the company a lot of business. I was placed on garden leave for a week and was told I did not need to work my notice and…
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Good monthly net pay
What are peoples views on a good net pay each month in terms of being very comfortable. £3k? £4k? Talking about net pay after tax, NI, student loan deductions.
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Calling out to School Business Managers!
Hi All I am interested in working as a school business manager and need some insight in to the roles responsibilities and day to day activities. Is there someone willing to run through with me?
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Employment checks
My neighbour served party wall injection order against my building extension works. Would like to know if this impacts my employment background checks as i got new job offer.
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Pay rise and resignation
Hi I wonder if anyone can help me - I received a letter from my employer stating my pay increase from 1st Jan along with a separate letter stating i will receive a cost of living payment also in Jan pay. Since then, i have resigned and am working my notice so they have retracted both. Are they legally allowed to do this,…
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Emailing CV vs Visiting Company?
I got my current job 9 years ago now by sending in a speculative CV. I’ll admit 99% I didn’t even get an acknowledgement from so I hit it lucky. So due to an upcoming redundancy and crappy job market (unless you want to be a care assistant) I’m thinking of doing this again. But I’ve wondered would I have more success going…
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Change of pay date
Hi my employer is changing my pay date to the middle of the month - from the end of the month to the middle. Obviously this means we will be 2 weeks out of synch, instead of paying us for a 6 week period I have been told the extra two weeks will be paid when our contract ends ie if you leave the job. Can this be done?
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Change in commission
Hi, I currently work for a company where I am based on a wage plus commission. A few weeks ago we were been informed that the commission payment is changing. Whilst the banding is staying the same depending on commission earned (current band is 5%, 10% and 15% depending on the amount), we have been told if we do not get 3…
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Sack any time first two years - so what’s the point of probation periods?
I’ve often seen it written “can be sacked any time in the first two years”, so why do most of the companies I’ve worked for have a 6 month probation period and does it trump the two year mark?
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Background screening
Would you withdraw an offer if you find out someone had failed probation in a previous role?
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Payrise Advise
Hello All, I have been working for my company for the past 10 years and in total 14 years for the client as I have been through 2 TUPE . Throughout this long 10 years i never got an official payrise beside the yearly bonus of 1- 1.5% and £ 500 increase 4 years ago due to an award I got nominated for by the company itself…
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Overtime conundrum, unsure what to do?
So after some advice. I’m currently working my notice period as due to be made redundant start of March. The way my life is set up at the moment is I do an hours overtime every morning, I do mornings as it’s the only time that suits, my life is set up to avoid having to pay childcare, so I work 40 hours per week during…
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Bonus removed after TUPE
Hi all looking for a little help My company was bought out last year and we all TUPE'd across. We had a bonus scheme that paid out x% depending on band multiplied by a performance multiplier. That multiplier couldn't go lower than 0.5 and has never been lower than 0.8. Now new company are debt laden and making no money and…
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Holiday entitlement
I’ve just found out that my husband’s employer has only been paying him 2 weeks holiday pay + Bank holidays for years and has never given him the correct holiday entitlement. My husband mentioned it to his boss (it’s a small company) last year and his boss told him around middle of September last year that the was entitled…
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Changing contracted days
I have an 8hr contract stating that my shifts are on a Saturday and Sunday. As I'm not needed regularly on those days the shifts that are being given to me are on a Tuesday and Thursday. I work a fair bit of overtime but haven't been getting much lately. Due to this I'm thinking of looking for more work somewhere else. My…
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Wrong bank details - what rights do I have?
Hello. I needed to change the bank account I get my wages paid to so I filled in a paper form. upon checking, the bank details are wrong - by one digit. I looked back at the form and a couple of others have advised that one of the digits looks like a 3 when it is actually a five. I have two questions really: I have checked…
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PAYE and one-off income from other source
Hi, I hope I am posting in the right place. Between 2015 and 2018 I was self employed trying to start an online business. After that period, unluckily I suspended it. I am currently working full time in PAYE earning around £35k. Last year it turned out that the displayed ads on the old websites still generated some…
