YAY! Just been sacked... no wait....
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Indeed, there is definitely something wrong if an employer can fire someone without giving a reason if they are on probation, but it affects your chances of future employment. Surely the reason for leaving your previous job should not matter at all to prospective employers if you were in a probationary period then?
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Well managed to secure another job! (hopefully this one will last!)
It's a 3 month contract at Specsavers supporting all their EPOS systems and training is provided for Linux as well
Start next Monday!
You shoulda gone there in the first place, saved you a lot of bother.
Well managed to secure another job! (hopefully this one will last!)
It's a 3 month contract at Specsavers supporting all their EPOS systems and training is provided for Linux as well
Start next Monday!
Good luck with this one.
You shoulda gone there in the first place, saved you a lot of bother.
Should have gone to specsavers
Oh wait..
brah
Well managed to secure another job! (hopefully this one will last!)
It's a 3 month contract at Specsavers supporting all their EPOS systems and training is provided for Linux as well
Start next Monday!
Grats on the new job; but I wouldn't forget about suing your old boss if I was you. Take him to the cleaners!
Just had another interview today (interview was planned before i accept job offer at Specsavers).
It seems like a much better job in terms of responsibilites plus the pay is much better... haven't had any feedback on that job though!
Also, anyone got any idea about 'Umbrella' companies? Apparantly I need to sign up with one as i'm now a contractor!
It seems like a much better job in terms of responsibilites plus the pay is much better... haven't had any feedback on that job though!
Also, anyone got any idea about 'Umbrella' companies? Apparantly I need to sign up with one as i'm now a contractor!
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Do both companies know what happened with your previous employer?
I have used Parasol in the past as my umbrella company, but as my daily rate gradually increased I set up my own limited company and now contract through that (used InTouch for the limited company setup and accounts).
If you have any questions etc. contact me via my Trust email
Used Danbro in the past.
Basically they allow you to have things like expenses in the form of a daily allowance, for food and fuel mileage (up to a certain limit usually). They'll deduct your monthly/weekly expenses from your pay, you then pay tax on the amount left, then they deduct their fees (£20 per week in my case) from your expenses then you get those expenses back - they deal with all of your tax etc too. It sounds complicated, but if you're a contractor (basically temping) you loose out on the benefits of salaried work, so the trade-off is being able to claim deductible expenses - according to the last I looked at it you could be temping/contracting for up to 24 months on the same job before it would be classed as full-time salaried employment whereby tax/expenses would be different.
When I was doing it, I usually came out bout 200 quid a month better off due to getting about 50 quid a week in food and fuel allowance paid.
I used to fill in my time sheet for work and fax it over (it had to be signed by my boss back then), and my expenses forms online each week.
Generally speaking these type of accountancy firms can either do all the work for you, or guide you in setting yourself up as a limited company, or somewhere in-between. Worth while doing either way imo.
Basically they allow you to have things like expenses in the form of a daily allowance, for food and fuel mileage (up to a certain limit usually). They'll deduct your monthly/weekly expenses from your pay, you then pay tax on the amount left, then they deduct their fees (£20 per week in my case) from your expenses then you get those expenses back - they deal with all of your tax etc too. It sounds complicated, but if you're a contractor (basically temping) you loose out on the benefits of salaried work, so the trade-off is being able to claim deductible expenses - according to the last I looked at it you could be temping/contracting for up to 24 months on the same job before it would be classed as full-time salaried employment whereby tax/expenses would be different.
When I was doing it, I usually came out bout 200 quid a month better off due to getting about 50 quid a week in food and fuel allowance paid.
I used to fill in my time sheet for work and fax it over (it had to be signed by my boss back then), and my expenses forms online each week.
Generally speaking these type of accountancy firms can either do all the work for you, or guide you in setting yourself up as a limited company, or somewhere in-between. Worth while doing either way imo.
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Right, it's about time I dusted this thread off!
So, my arse of a solicitor never actually managed to create the letter for me, and when I rang him up multiple times he told me he was too busy to do it and would try and do it at the weekend.
So, weekend passed and nothing so rang him up the other week and said "WTH are you playing at" and we decided that I would create a draft letter to Leaders, send it to him and he would then make any changes he felt that were neccessary.
This has now been done and I'm sending the letter off tomorrow, and have given Leaders till 1st February to reply.
Will update when/if I get a reply.
So, my arse of a solicitor never actually managed to create the letter for me, and when I rang him up multiple times he told me he was too busy to do it and would try and do it at the weekend.
So, weekend passed and nothing so rang him up the other week and said "WTH are you playing at" and we decided that I would create a draft letter to Leaders, send it to him and he would then make any changes he felt that were neccessary.
This has now been done and I'm sending the letter off tomorrow, and have given Leaders till 1st February to reply.
Will update when/if I get a reply.
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Aren't you a little late with starting proceedings against them? Pretty sure there's a statute of limitaions on Unfair Diss.
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