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Employer paying below minimum wage (UK, Scotland)

Hi everyone! Writing this post to seek some advice 🙂 I’m a 21yo part-time restaurant server and I’ve had some issues at work recently. Besides continuous verbal harassment from my manager, I noticed that the company has not updated the minimum wage on my payrolls starting from April 1st. They should be paying me 9.18 but they are still paying 8.91. I know it’s not much, but bills are increasing and I want to get what I am fully entitled to get. I’ve spoken to the manager, telling her that I would stop working unless I got paid the legal amount and she said she’s going to “speak to the management upstairs and see what they say”. Another colleague of mine asked about it, and she brushed it off… So what would you suggest to do? I have a shift tomorrow at 12 but for the moment, I think I…

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Not only did Crumbl Cookies not read any of the applications submitted to them, their GM sent out a mass email from their personal email address to everyone who applied without a blind CC thereby exposing their applicant list.

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You Really Shouldn’t Give Your Employees Free-time, Haha

I work from home for a major company that provides tech support services. I have a team lead whom I love. He really cares about us as people and tries to get us time off the phones and time to unwind. He’s very laid back with us and will deliberately run meetings longer than needed in order to give us a mental break. One day, I was near tears due to several difficult calls and so were several coworkers so decided to give us a bit of time to cool down and unwind before going back to calls. I have thick skin when it comes to my calls but these customers went on long tirades and I had to end interactions with them due to abusive behavior. So my boss treated me and my teammates like humans and he gave us a breather. Well, the next week we all heard…

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Questions about unionizing

So I work at a music store that’s part of a chain (not guitar center tho), and I’m one of 3 employees total at this location, with one being the manager, who has been blowing up at my only coworker and I in increasing frequency. Beyond that the company keeps adding new responsibilities to the job without an increase in pay or any benefits. I’m looking at other jobs(got my second interview for a higher paying job this week!), but someone mentioned unions so I was curious. We’re probably going to both quit soon since my coworker said he doesn’t want to be at this job alone with the manager, and I doubt I’ll make nearly as much as this job I’m interviewing in this company. but if we were interested in staying, would a theoretical mini union be possible? Especially since we have pretty much gotten no employment applications,…

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self destruct trait

I was one of the hardworking and valuable employee, I did all the assigned task perfectly and my boss was impressed and kind of helping me to build my career path by assigning important and critical task to me. But after the covid hit and we change from office to work from home environment, I started to get lazy and unproductive day by day, eventually I ended up avoiding calls and skipping job. I had been confronted by my boss many time but I just can't get myself up. Eventually I ghosted the job for more than 8 months till now, there was a project assigned to me before that and I am unable to start doing it till today, everyday I struggle to open the company laptop but I just can't do it, always finding excuse to avoid myself from doing it. I got tensed, sweated, and distracted myself…

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5 Year Junior (F) earns more than me

I’ve been doing research and trying to decide the best approach. I’ve found out my colleague, 5 years my junior and female , employed in the exact same role, earns more than me. Has anyone else been in this situation, if so how did you handle it?

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So my ass got fired from Amazon

So I wasnt suppose to get fired while being on mh loa while im injured but i got fired and cant do anything since it im in an at will state and they deemed my injury as not bad. If you have read my previous post about my injury well here is the update. If I dont get the medical care I need im going to mexico to get treated since my lawyer ghosted me. I will try to respond as much as I can.

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Haven’t worked for a while

I haven't worked for a while due to illness. My illness is ongoing but it's better than it was. I have to keep my illness in mind when choosing a job. I have tried applying to a couple of different jobs mentioning my illness in the application for full transparency and I haven't heard anything back. I'm scared about working and that I won't be able to do it, because of my health and confidence. I'm scared I won't get a job in the first place because of my illness. I have minimal experience and no qualifications. I'm also disheartened about the prospect of working for minimum wage, especially for the rest of my life. My current government benefits are not enough to support me living on my own so I live with my mother and pay board, but our situation will be changing soon and I won't be able…

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We need your keys and badge!

That's nice. The doors don't close anymore because you hired someone to melt all the permafrost. What are keys for?

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Your life is worth more than what they pay you