Hi
Can anyone help with a little guidance please?
My daughter is just about to leave her current home and move into a specially adapted property to meet the needs of my profoundly disabled grandson.
The local authority have asked her to go into the office to sign the tenancy agreement,...

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  The Financial Conduct Authority says payday lender Wonga will not face criminal action after being found to have invented fictitious law firms and sent letters threatening legal action to customers in arrears. Wonga must pay £2.6m in compensation.

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Tax man errors mean 3.5 million employees will have to pay money back

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 20th June 2014 14:34.

*Estimated number of errors in the tax system is on the rise despite the new 'more accurate' £273m system* More than five million workers...

Employees on 'zero-hours' contracts hits 1.4m

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 1st May 2014 11:32.

*Worries about true strength of jobs market as official figures show number on 'zero-hours' contracts much higher than thought* The strength of...

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Wm Morrison supermarket suffers payroll data theft


Morrisons says the majority of its staff have been affected by the theft of payroll data.

BBC business correspondent Emma Simpson has been told that details of around 100,000 employees have been stolen.

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I'm a hr manager at a medium sized firm, we have a lovely man who is 73 who was working full time up to 12 months ago. I have been speaking to him regularly as work is his respite as he cares for his son with severe mental health problems. Spoke to him last a week ago and I knew he was suffering (bone...

I left work early last week, suffering from fuzzy head, earache and generally feeling crap! I was off for a day and half, first absence in 2 years. My line manager has to let HR know I'm off, when I'm back and the reason I was absent. Thing is on my file, HR have put my absence down to 'mental health...

Last week my sisters car was damaged by a sign that blew off the side of the building where she works, the estimate for repairs is £900.

Her employers do not own the building they only rent it. (Do they have a duty of care towards employees?)

Should she be claiming from her...

Aviva customer car insurance accident details stolen

Aviva is writing to tens of thousands of customers after concerns that two employees sold details of people who had recently had accidents to claims companies.
Some Aviva customers have since received calls from firms to persuade them...

Barclays to cut up to 12,000 jobs as aims to trim costs

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 11th February 2014 13:50.

*Barclays plans to cut between 10,000 and 12,000 jobs this year, including 7,000 in the UK.* The bank, which has 140,000 staff in total, said it...

I wonder if anyone can tell me if vanquish write to your employers? My debts become SB by the end of 2014 and I was thinking of applying as I am having to travel a bit with work and it can be embarrassing if it's the end of the month and I don't have the cash to pay for hotels etc. however the finance...

I started a temp job last Friday after spending the rest of the tax year on JSA. I didn't have my P45 yet, so I had to fill in the agency's online equivalent of a P46 declaration on their online timesheet system.

The trouble is that yesterday I tried to log in to do this week's timesheet...

Hi - question for any tax experts out there.

I am considering going from contracting to being a full time employee on PAYE.

The position I'm considering the employment contract states that I would not be office based, instead my permanent place of work would be 'home-based'....

Robinson Way sells Chase Solutions

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 20th June 2013 16:10.

Robinson Way Limited has sold Chase Solutions, the field services division of the company, in a deal that protects the jobs of 20 employees. Chase...

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Lloyds admits shortcomings in handling PPI complaints

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 11th June 2013 07:55.

Lloyds has admitted shortcomings in the handling of complaints at a centre set up to deal with PPI mis-selling. It comes as an undercover reporter at......