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Question about JSA
Hey, I'm asking this question on behalf of my sisters bf. My sis and her bf are currently living together in my dads house. My sis is working full time and gets paid roughly £22,000 a year. He bf on the other hand cant seem to get a job. He is genuinly looking so he made a claim for JSA. He made the claim in mid Sept and…
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Working for the Jobcentre DWP and Bankruptcy
Hello Ladies and Gents My first post on these forums, only came across them today, can't believe the wealth of info on here! OK so a few weeks back I applied for a position working within the Jobcentre, it is for a 12 month fixed term contract. I passed the application stage, I have passed the literacy and numeracy tests,…
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business start up help
hi, im 26 and live in bournemouth with my wife and baby son. i work as a support worker in an nhs mental health hospital. i really want to start up my own wedding photography business, with many ideas to expand in the future. we fell into bad credit when my wife was on maternity leave as her pay dropped very dramatically,…
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Refused a job because I smoke....
Yes can you believe it....... I have just spoken to the inerveiwer on the phone, and I was told that "the company does not employ smokers", and that "You can re-send your CV after you have been smoke free for a month"......... That's descriminatory, what are my rights?
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no breaks, long hours, no NMW, NOW TOO COLD?!
my employer is a farce. last month they withheld my wages, i work 9 hours straight with no official break. the only time i can really not work is when i'm physically eating. taking into account i don't get my stated hour break, i earn less than minimum wage. i'm frequently 'required' to stay up to an hour later, making my…
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Young and pretty female
My boyfriend recently went for an internal promotion along with another of his colleagues. They both had to give powerpoint presentations as part of their interviews. He's seen her presentation and apparently it was lacking in substance and looked like a school project, plus he's had better appraisals and job performance…
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what do i do if i'm made redundant???
with next year looking gloomy jobwise for alot of people i wanted to ask if i was made redundant what do i do?? i've never been unemployed before so wanted to find out what the process in advance just in case the worst case scenario happens and i find myself unemployed in the future. do i just walk into the job centre the…
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Rules on claiming travel expenses
Hi, My husband has been working for his employer for the last few months & has worked from home from the start. As he does quite a bit of travelling he was told that he should claim expenses from home. He has just had a change of manager and now they are saying that he has to foot the first forty miles of travel before he…
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Was I successful at interview?
I had an interview for a big promotion at work on Monday morning, there are some external candidates being interviewed for this position also so it has to be a two stage interview process, Mondays was stage 1. I didn't feel that I had done my best as there were a couple of tricky questions but when I went over it with my…
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Employment Tribunal and Mediation!!!
Am i being given the wrong advice? I am taking my ex employer to tribunal over sex discrimination and health and safety issues that resulted in me leaving my job. I was advised by my solicitor to go for mediation, which i agreed to and today she decided to tell me that because i had agreed to this my tribunal would be put…
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Friend not allowed to attend funeral as it's on Xmas Eve!
My friend works in retail. Her grandfather died yesterday and the funeral is Christmas Eve. The problem is her employer will not let her to have the day off to attend his funeral. He was the only grandparent she knew as 2 of them died before she was born and the other died when she was a few months old. She has pleaded to…
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Contractor redundant whilst on SSP - not being paid notice period
Hi All I have just heard that I am being made redundant. I am a contractor with a temporary contract through an agency, I'm actually based in the Netherlands but it's a UK agency and UK tax etc so I don't think this makes a difference. I have been with the company and agency in this position for 2 years. I have been off…
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Previous Employer being nightmare, causing so much stress..
Hi there Its a long story but i will put it as short as i can, i was sacked from my job in september this year after being there 2 years. At the moment i am in the process of trying to get back the money they owe me, which is pay lieu noti ce, holiday money etc. I have a date set for Jan 15th 2009 for the employmeny…
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Unable to use up my annual leave entitlement
I started a month ago at my new job. My annual leave is given in hours as I do 4x 8 hours shifts and 1x7 hour shift (Tuesday) per week. So this is 39 hours a week. The problem is that they have given me 76 hours annual leave to book off, 2 hours short of 2 full weeks and that's to the end of the annual leave 'year'. I…
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Got job interview with council on friday
Ok ive got an interview with the council and im after some questions i could ask, ive got some already i can ask but in no particular order: any staff parking oppurtunities for training oh and i wont be asking questions about pay as ive seen it mentioned before to not ask about pay etc. If they answer the questions i was…
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From salary to a price per job...help please
My husband has worked for his employer on a salary until now, and it was recently proposed that he go on to a reduced basic wage, topped up with a bonus, depending on the amount of work he does. He was not happy with this, but knowing that the company was struggling, agreed in principle, once he had built up a round for…
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is this unfair dismisall ?
got my pay slip and inside was a memo from work adressed to all the people who work in the west area(to which i fall under) stating that due to a fall in sales the company was pulling out if the west area as of friday 19th december it also stated that the company could find some work with another company ( which are owned…
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References
How can you get around if your former boss seems to stop you getting any other job because they don't like you? It seems a tricky one as you must have your most recent employer as a ref.
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Reinstated employee but job has been filled by a new person.
What happens if someone is reinstated to a job but they have filled their job with someone else? I just wondered what an employer would do.
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Jobless
i HAVE JUST RECENTLY LEFT MY JOB, MY EMPLOYER DID NOT LIKE ME TAKING TIME OFF BECAUSE MY CHILDREN WERE POORLY, I HANDED MY NOTICE IN A WEEK AGO, I WRKED ON SAT WHICH WAS MY LAST DAY AND SHE STILLL HAS NOT PAID ME WHAT SHE OWES ME WHAT CAN I DO?