Friday, October 30th, 2009 - cv help, cv writing, job application, job search

Job Application: Unpaid Wages and HMRC! Penelope, a shop worker, asks: What should I do? Should I put this on my CV? I worked six months for a shop. The guy in the end wasn’t paying taxes and stole my money. I found out that he hadn’t even registered his company with the revenue so [...]

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Thursday, June 18th, 2009 - career change, career management, career transition, contract negotiation, economics, employer, employment, job application, legal, redundancy, regulation, tutorial

Asked for Resignation Letter? Andrew, a skilled engineer, asks: I worked for a company for 4 years and was made redundant in a huge batch of redundancies. A couple of months later, the same company asked me to go back on a fixed term temporary contract. I’ve been back there 2 months and have been [...]

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Monday, April 6th, 2009 - HMRC, employer, employment, legal

HMRC IR35 HMRC have been continuing their fight on IR35, and have won a case against an Essex based construction company, resulting in a bill for £800,000 Background: UK employee’s pay two types of tax in their pay: Income Tax, and National Insurance. The later is supposed to pay/contribute for areas such as the NHS [...]

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