Questions tagged [united-kingdom]
Questions about the workplace that may specifically relate to cultures, customs, or laws in the United Kingdom.
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On Call Payments
We have just been asked to do on call at my workplace (voluntary) from 1800-0800 M-F and 24hrs on weekends. With a 'carrot' of £300 per week.
They aren't however paying us for any time spent if we're ...
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Service has been outsourced but employer has not had a single meeting with employees
I work for a public sector organisation in the UK and the service we provide for the organistion has been outsourced to a private sector company. The tender has been signed and the new provider has ...
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Employed by 2 companies with one Director at the same time?
I am a Senior Office Administrator. I have been employed by 2 companies with one director for the past 5.5 years. My salary was split between both companies 50% / 50%
I was employed by Company A. ...
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How to handle an employee being forced in to Team
I work in a small sized company as part of an IT Team of 5, which includes 2 software developers.
A person was introduced to the company by a member staff as a potential hire as a software developer. ...
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Not paid agreed money for training after quitting position
I was employed for a very short time for a part-time job which has paid training. I did 8 hours over a week, I realised it wasn't really working out for me as I disagreed with the practices there. I ...
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Is this fraud? And if so, to what extent am I responsible?
I am the most senior technical employee at a small company providing software as a service to other businesses.
The company only has about 10 employees, so one of the directors does a lot of the sales ...
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Employer wants to film me for website videos
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My employer wants to interview myself and a bunch of my colleagues for a very lengthy corporate video to go on the website. It is quite a big name and there would be a lot of traffic from ...
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Current employer is putting last-minute conditions on shorter notice period
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I work in the UK, my line manager is in France, but department head is in the UK. I've worked in the same role for 12 years. My line manager has been in his role for three months, with the ...
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Working for a US company from the UK - bank holidays and minimum PTO
I may be starting to work remotely soon from the UK for a US company. From what I understand, holiday requirements are very different there (in the UK there is a minimum of 28 days PTO including bank ...
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Is it legal to have a single 20 minute break for a 9 hour shift in the UK?
I work 5 days a week 9-6 and get a single 20 minute break for lunch. I am mentally drained and completely worn out. How can this be legal? By the time you’ve gobbled your food it’s time to go back - ...
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Can an employer retroactively change my start date so my tax and NI deductions are correct?
I worked in March for a small family-run company getting cash in hand. Only in April was I made an official employee and given proper pay cheques where my PAYE taxes and NI are deducted.
I checked my ...
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Is it legal to retract from an accepted conditional offer?
I live in the UK and accepted a conditional offer. All my reference checks have come back clear and I am now waiting for a start date.
However, I have been waiting more than a week despite being told ...
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Change in UK employment to French contractor: What to look out for? [closed]
I am a British citizen and live in the UK. I am employed by the UK branch of a French company. Apparently, in October, a change to UK legislation may make the UK branch -- which has very few employees ...
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During a Ramped Return to Work, can the employer enforce a reduction in working hours?
Suppose I have an injury, which warrants an extended absense followed by a Ramped Return to Work.
Let's suppose I started at 2dpw and have currently progressed to working 3 dpw, with a shared ...
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Quitting in probation period
I am currently in a probation period at work. I want to quit as it’s harming my mental health. I have to provide 3 months notice if I hand in my notice during the probation period. However they can ...
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Toxic coworker or am I being too sensitive?
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I work in tech which is very male dominated.
I work for a large company with >1000 employees
A newish (<1 year) colleague, straight out of university, is behaving in an aggressively ...
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Finding H1B Sponsorship as a Software Engineer
I'm a technical lead in the field of software engineering based in the UK.
My salary here is a fraction of what it would be in the US. So, it makes financial sense for me to move over there, for at ...
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Should I be worried about my probation period?
During my recent one-to-one, my manager told me I shouldn't be humble, I should be more confident and sometimes in a braggy way to show what I have accomplished during the evening standups. In the end,...
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Resigned, .manager announced my new employer to all without permission
I'm in UK and I’ve just resigned as I’ve accepted a new role at a direct competitor (a better package). I have two questions I'm hiding for help on.
I asked my manager what to do next when handing in ...
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How to ask my workplace to amend my leaving date
I work in a special educational needs school. I sent my resignation letter to the Head Teacher yesterday, giving 4 weeks notice. It works out well, as my last day actually falls on the last day of ...
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trying to change my leaving date UK
I am leaving my work for several reasons, including having to reduce my hours to care for my elderly parents, and also the stress I am under at work.
Due to my brother going into hospital, I want to ...
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Signals and consequences of voluntary part-time?
My employer recently laid off staff due to economic conditions; on the order of 10%, I think. I made the cut and we -- the survivors -- have been promised that there won't be another round of lay offs ...
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Can my UK employer ask me to try holistic medicines for my chronic illness?
My company's HR department utilises the Bradford Factor as a means to determine appropriate disciplinary actions, such as verbal or written warnings, in response to employee absenteeism due to illness....
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The consultancy company that offered me a job has delayed my start date twice (by a total of 12 weeks so far)
I recently finished my degree and got my first job on the 25th of Jan. Since this was a consultancy company, they asked for 6 weeks to find a project that could put me on, which made my planned start ...
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I complained about a coworker and they know I did it. How can I handle the situation?
Not so long ago, I was attending the office and it was pretty quiet; people aren't really attending so much despite company policy, myself included.
On this day some co-workers were socialising in the ...
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How to communicate in an application legal right in the country and willingness to relocate?
I'm a UK citizen but I've been living and working in the US for the last 14 years. Due to changing personal circumstances, I'm looking to move back to the UK but I don't want to relocate unless I ...
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Performance improvement plan(PIP) has been proposed [duplicate]
Been put on a PIP but I think the performance issues concerned may be related to my disability. I've let HR know
How do you think HR is going to react to this, especially in light of my disability? I ...
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How can I receive payments from a US company as a UK resident for a project?
I have a friend in the US who owns a company, and he wants me to make an app for him. The arrangement would be a monthly fee until the app is done, and a lump sum at the end. I'm almost certain this ...
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Can an employer force me to go on sick pay [closed]
This is quite a long complicated story so I will shorten it.
I am currently suspended from work on full pay. At the last meeting ("check up chat") it was hinted that I may now need to go on ...
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Should I be concerned that one of my direct reports still has one to one meetings with my manager after I was promoted?
A few months ago, I was promoted to team leader for a small team of 3 (including myself).
Before my promotion, me and the rest of the team reported to the person who is now my line manager, and had ...
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Can I publically share code on Github for a website created for a company [closed]
I've been asked to create a website (shop-front) for a local company, now that it's done they have allowed me to share a link to my personal portfolio.
The repository is currently private, but if ...
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Online training login still active after redundancy
My previous company had a subscription to an online training website for all employees. I was made redundant a few months ago but I recently discovered that my login still works. Should I login and ...
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I work remotely and use a managed co-working space. The cost of such is tax-deductible for freelancers. What options do permanent contract peole have? [closed]
This is in the UK.
Essentially what the title says. I am employed on a permanent contract and pay for my own co-working space. As this is an income-related expense, and I know my freelancing friends ...
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When working remote, would cycling to my co-working space count towards the "50% journey to work" requirement for UK Cycle Scheme? [closed]
I was hoping to use the Cycle Scheme at my workplace as it's pretty much the only benefit they provide that applies to me. However, I work remotely and only appear in the office every 1.5 months on ...
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Accepting liability to employer contractor [closed]
I work in Finance, and in the course of my employment need to use the services of a 3rd party, who have an existing contract with my employer. Some routine paperwork I would fill to register with the ...
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My company has hired someone I had history with, what to do? [closed]
I've found out that my company has hired someone who I won't be able to work with - think emotional abuse rather than fisticuffs.
We wouldn't be working together, but would have to collaborate on ...
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Interpreting daily and total spend for UK employee's international travel expense
I am reviewing the wording in an international travel expense policy for UK employees, and the following excerpt is unclear to me:
Total spend for the duration of travel should not exceed <amount&...
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Change in terms of contract
UK employee here.
I just completed a 3 month notice period at my company. In my contract, it stated that accrued leave is paid for if you resign. However, HR sent an email stating some facts and terms ...
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Can I leave a job off my CV?
My first role was for 5 years, and unrelated to my current role.
I left the role under bad terms with management.
Since then I have 7+ years of experience working in other roles more relevant to the ...
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Offered a job that does not exist... yet (apparently)
I recently applied for a position in my current company (UK Based). Due to lack of experience, I did not get the job and instead it went to someone else internally.
Since then (2 months later) they ...
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Is it possible to get a part-time IT job while doing Masters in the UK?
I am a software developer with 3 years of experience and planning to move to the UK for an MSc in the next September session. As you know students are allowed only 20 hours per week of working, I was ...
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My (large) employer hasn't registered an obvious misspelling of their primary domain URL
I have recently joined a non-IT department of a large (>10,000 employee), say called "Kirby Matthews". Their main domain is kirbymatthews.com, but I received an internal email which had a ...
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Using preferred name when starting a new job
I've started a new graduate job recently. My full legal first name are two names which are separated e.g. Anna Lisa.
Throughout school and university I've always been known as my first name but I ...
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How can I be sure my UK company pay into my pension fund?
As everybody else in the UK, I have to pay some money for my pension and the company has to contribute to it for a minimum of 3%.
For what I read, the company has maximum 30 days to send the money ...
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Can my UK company order me to join a social event?
I like doing my job and with COVID I love working from home with meetings via Teams. After COVID, I'm continuing working from home. My productivity is higher than in the office and I often work (...
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Help - called into a meeting with HR & Legal [closed]
Hoping someone can help. Going out of my mind worrying. Got a meeting invite Friday PM from HR with the following…
“ I am scheduling this time to discuss with you a confidential matter. Your insight ...
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I work remote but CEO is not happy no one is using the shiny new office space, new mandate that everyone has to work 3 days in the office (UK) [closed]
Background: I am employed as a remote Senior/Mid C# developer at a local-ish company. I have worked remotely for over 10 years at various companies with the usual caveat that comes with all remote ...
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How to write a letter of complaint about mean girls
I am in the UK. I understand that there are 'protected characteristics' that one is fully justified in raising complaints about if violated and are taken very seriously by the management however, ...
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How to interpret advertised salary range (at UK startup)?
Advertising salary range in job posting is becoming more and more common these days. Some of the ranges are very wide, say [x, 1.5x] (e.g., [60k, 90k]).
How to guestimate the final salary that the ...
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Communicating UK shared parental leave to US manager
some background: I work in the UK as a software developer for a US technology company. My line manager is based in the US.
My wife and I are expecting a child. My wife is taking 6 months of leave ...
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