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Employment & Jobseeking USEFUL LINKS
The following links may prove useful in looking for information about Employment and Jobseeking. [MSE INSERT, 15/02/22: Some of these links are now out of date. You can find an updated list on this page of the thread] MSE Fully Researched Guides Low Income Grant Grabbing House and Energy Grant Grabbing Great Grants Hunt…
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How to get over damaging employment experiences?
Hi All- I’d be grateful for insight, thoughts or suggestions how to process when you have gone through difficult experiences at an employer? I’d welcome hearing from anyone who got through disciplinary, dismissal or being asked to leave, and if they have any advice. I’m certainly finding it difficult in a new employer…
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Flexible working request
Hi, I wonder if someone could give me some advice as I am getting incorrect answers all over from my manager and HR dept. I submitted a flexible working request recently on the 11th of September. My manager said she 'didn't want to drag it out' yet my meeting to discuss was scheduled for the 6th of November. A decision…
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Dismissed from employment
In approx June this year i took a job on PAYE at lets call it Acme Ltd , and told the owner i would be able to get up to speed with his mechanical drawing software in no time. However, after 2 weeks i still hadnt nailed it down and he started screaming at me. I simply told him i would leave there and then and he didnt have…
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Need to pay tax for short contract of work?
Hi, I have just earned £2538 for an electronics engineering contract which lasted 11 days. (beginning of November 2025) They didn't pay NI or Tax for me, but just payed me the money, (after I invoiced them) which was on a pro-rata rate of 60k per annum. The work finished after 11 days as that's how long it took for me to…
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Settlement Agreement
HI, advice please on the following. Last week, I received an email to not return to work, HR meeting with view to settlement agreement, arranged 4 days later. The reason given, on questioning was the breakdown of the relationship with no further explanation. Employment of nearly ten years in current role. PILON 9 weeks as…
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How to set up a Ltd Company?
Hi, Just today been offered a 6 month contract for electronics engineering. They want to know the name of my Ltd Company. I dont have one. How do i get one? I am doing research whilst posting this but still not found out yet. Maybe i could register as a Sole Trader instead?....is that easier /quicker.?...i think they may…
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reduncy and how it affcfec uc payment
Been made redunt as 27 nov 25 after 7 year same company no pay rise am divorced and livig 17 mies from sone and work place what will to do to my uc claim as themoney is for around 3 months but need to keep for rainy day am looking for work but live in hemle jobs far between amd thinking of moving back in to lodon but rent…
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Can an employer force you to work away from home if you've got childcare issues?
Worked this place for a few years. All travel has been local i.e. 30 mins away max. They know I've got a 12 year old..... Company has taken on a new client 5 hrs away and trying to tell me I have to go there every few weeks (it'd be 1-2 night overnight stay). I've explained it'd be impossible - their answer - tough not our…
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Missing previous job
I was made redundant in July due to company depot closures, I had been employed almost 13 years. I have since had 5 jobs. First was 3 weeks, second 1 week, third 2 days 🫣, forth 3 weeks and I'm currently on my fifth job and into my second week. The unsettling feeling is returning, I'm still training but the pressure is…
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Employment Tribunal
I will shortly be going to tribunal has anyone gone without representation. How was it. I am going for Constructive Dismissal (Unfair Dismissal) Thank you
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Offered a job but starts in 3 weeks time
Hi, If you get offered a job, but they wont start you until 3 weeks time, then that means you will be 3 weeks without pay. Is it perfectly normal in that case, to simply keep applying for other jobs in the hope that you get offered a job that pays more and starts you sooner? ...ie, even though one has signed the employment…
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Have not been payed for an electronics engineering contract
Hi, I recently started a one month electronics engineering contract for a London startup. I started on 29 sept but finished on 13th oct. I finished early because I had solved their problem, so i didn't insist that they keep paying me throughout a 2 week notice period till the end of the month. Anyway, I submitted the…
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TERM TIME WAGES
Hi I've just been offered a job and been told that after 3 months I will go onto an annualised wage. I'll work 39 weeks and get 4 weeks' holiday. Everyone will have to take 2 weeks off over Christmas and New Year (which is fine). I was then told that I'd have two weeks left to take. However, it is not allowed during term…
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lawyers for constructive dismissal
Just spoken to ACAS and it seems I have a strong case for constructive dismissal against my employer. Can anyone advise on law firms and what sort of costs might be involved?
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Moved: Nationwide £175 Switch on Joint account if already got bonus on Sole
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Being pressured to resign from job that never existed
Hi, In june 2025 (its now Nov 2025) I applied for a job with a UK defence contractor (call it "zzz"), via a recruitment company , lets call it "bigrecruit". The recruiters name was lets call him "john smith". The job first collapsed, then didnt start, then i was given a new start date....then it collapsed again....then i…
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Financial advisors wrong doing
Hi everyone, I’d really appreciate some advice or opinions on what might be reasonable compensation in my situation. I had a financial adviser who failed to act on my instructions for around three months. I’ve since discovered he has been convicted and sent to prison for serious child sex offences. During that time, I…
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Employer has not paid my PAYE deductions to HMRC
My deductions have been removed from my wages every month since January 2014 but on the Government Gateway I have not been employed and they have not received my Tax or NI. Obviously my employer refuses to acknowledge as he is the one not paying them and keeping the money. I am missing all these years now towards my…
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Becoming a Locum as a Newly Qualified Pharmacist- Tips and Advice Welcome!
Hi everyone, I’m a newly qualified pharmacist and could really use some advice from anyone who’s self-employed or has done locum work before. Bit of background – I worked as a dispenser in a hospital for 6 years whilst at uni, then did my pre-reg there too. I absolutely loved hospital pharmacy and prefer the clinical side…
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Expression of interest
Hi, I've really limited experience of applying for internal roles. Spent much of my working life in private before entering public sector couple of years ago. My current management have said I and 3 other colleagues can put in an 'expression of interest' to try for a permanent role. Not a promotion but a sideways move into…
