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I have been out of work for a while, and was pleased to be offered five weeks work (what I was told by my employer at the interview) up until Christmas.
That was back in October, and I started the job last week.
However, prior to starting the job, I found it difficult to contact the employer, and there were several questions from me which remained unanswered.
I queried the rota, where instead of five weeks work, I only have two days a week at the very busiest times, I have no contract, no confirmed rate of pay (I was told £12 PH at the interview), and each day I have been there (four days in total) the rostered hours have changed without warning.
I was asked to pay for a DBS check up front, and I have not received the certificate yet, and I have not been told when we are getting paid.
The supervisor seems to have taken an instant dislike to me - probably because I keep asking questions about the things which I have mentioned.
I got this job through a Jobcentre jobfair, and took it because I am fed up with being unemployed (I started work in 1975), and because the Jobcentre kept pressurising me to take anything.
I have signed off, and to be honest, I feel like I have jumped from the frying pan into the fire.
Can anyone please advise, because this is the first place in 40 years where I have not had a contract.
That was back in October, and I started the job last week.
However, prior to starting the job, I found it difficult to contact the employer, and there were several questions from me which remained unanswered.
I queried the rota, where instead of five weeks work, I only have two days a week at the very busiest times, I have no contract, no confirmed rate of pay (I was told £12 PH at the interview), and each day I have been there (four days in total) the rostered hours have changed without warning.
I was asked to pay for a DBS check up front, and I have not received the certificate yet, and I have not been told when we are getting paid.
The supervisor seems to have taken an instant dislike to me - probably because I keep asking questions about the things which I have mentioned.
I got this job through a Jobcentre jobfair, and took it because I am fed up with being unemployed (I started work in 1975), and because the Jobcentre kept pressurising me to take anything.
I have signed off, and to be honest, I feel like I have jumped from the frying pan into the fire.
Can anyone please advise, because this is the first place in 40 years where I have not had a contract.
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