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A contract of employment is an agreement between an employer and an employee. This contract states your rights and duties as an employee as well as the rights and duties of your employer. These rights are known as -terms’ of contract. The contract doesn’t have to be in writing, but you’re entitled to a written statement of the main terms within two months of starting work.

Your contract of employment should be made up as soon as you accept a job offer and both you and your employer are then bound by its terms until the contract ends or until the terms of your contract are changed.

There are many aspects that have to be covered within your contract of employment so we will start with the basic information which is your job title and job description. Your employer technically doesn’t have to provide you with a job description but it is best that you try and get one as it will give you something to refer back to if you feel you are being forced to do unreasonable tasks, it will also state all of your responsibilities, including any extra ones that you may not have been aware of. Your contract of employment will also state your date of employment. This date of employment is the date that you officially become an employee of this particular employer. As well as showing the date that you officially become and employee, your contract, if not permanent, should state when your employment will end.

Two other aspects that will be placed within your contract of employment is your rate of pay and your hours of work. Your rate of pay will state how much you will be paid per year, before tax has been taken off, and when you will be paid, usually either monthly or weekly. When it comes to your hours of work it is important that you check you’re weekly hours and thoroughly read through your contract to see where you stand with overtime. Some contracts limit the amount of hours that you are able to work a week so checking your contracted hours is important to make sure that you are able to work the amount of hours that you agreed to.

Other aspects that should be placed within your contract of employment is your holiday entitlement and holiday pay. Most full-time workers have a statutory right to 24 days’ paid annual leave, and from 1 April, 2009 this increases to 28 days. There are merely just a few employees that might not automatically be given these rights. As well as having information about your holiday entitlement you will also need sick pay information. This part of your contract of employment will inform you about the amount of pay you are entitled to if you are enable to work due to illness If there are no terms or conditions related to pay due to injury or sickness, the work contract must say so.

Every aspect and detail of your employment should and needs to be stated within your contract of employment. If you feel that any part of your contract of employment is breeched at any time during your employment it is important that you seek professional help to find out where you stand legally.

Both your cover letter and your resume are important when looking for offshore drilling employment. You need to get HR to read both, otherwise it’s all for nothing. First, you need to attract their attention. This is easy – your email (cover letter) subject just needs to state the job title (and code, if any) in the advertisement. Then your cover letter must make them read your resume. Finally, getting you the interview is the job of your resume. For your cover letter, here are three elements necessary to make it powerful…

1. Do You Have Any Relevant Job Experience?

If you had one working week to select 20 candidates out of 500 for interviews, and all you had to go on was their cover letters and resumes, how would you do it? Whether you start from the earliest job applications, or the latest, or randomly open the emails, you would not read every cover letter and resume in detail. When you open the email (cover letter), you’ll only have time to look at the first half-page. It must give you a reason to read on and open the candidate’s resume, otherwise you’ll just move the job application to your trash folder.

So what makes the HR staff decide whether or not to read the rest of your cover letter and resume? The most important factor is relevant job experience. Unless you are going in through the back door, or the company is desperate for workers, your previous job experience is critical to selection. That means you must quickly and concisely state the most relevant points in your job history and tie it to the scope and requirements stated in the job advertisement.

But what if you have never worked in the oil industry before? During the oil boom, experience didn’t matter. But that is not the case during a recession. However, there is still a chance if you can get some relevant training under your belt. Oil is of strategic importance to many nations, and governments have training programs in place to provide workers for the oil industry. While the actual training may take place in technical or community colleges, the syllabus is designed by the oil industry.

Training can be expensive, but the oil industry still pays very well, so it is worth it. Before you pay for your own training, though, you should check if qualify for any form of subsidy. For example, disadvantaged youths in the US may qualify for the JobCorps program, while ex-servicemen in Britain have special training programs to prepare them for offshore oil rig jobs.

2. Do You Have Any Outstanding Skills?

Besides meeting the scope and requirements of the advertised oil rig jobs, is there any other thing that might make you special? Do you exceed the requirements in any way? For example, if the advertised roustabout jobs say they need people with 2 years of working experience, do you have 5 years? If you can add this kind of depth, and successfully make your case in the cover letter, you’ll have a better chance of getting hired.

However, depth is not the only way. How about breadth? Do you have any extra skills? Let’s take that same roustabout job. Perhaps you have scaffolding experience? Then say so. Companies always want people with some extra skills, as long as they don’t have to pay for it. Every boss wants his workers to be able to back each other up. He cannot afford to have critical jobs left undone just because the only guy who can do it broke a leg or something like that.

3. Can You Start Work Immediately?

Being able to start work immediately is always a strong point in your favor. If you can start work immediately, you can sometimes trump a rival with better experience. However, this does not just mean not having a job right now. You need to clear a lot of red tape before you can work on an offshore oil rig. If you have already dealt with the necessary paperwork, this saves the human resource staff a lot of trouble and they will be more willing to call you up.

While they aren’t supposed to behave this way, they are also human. In any case, this is a list of government paperwork you often have to deal with:

Firefighting certificate

First aid certificate

Helicopter underwater escape training certificate

Offshore survival certificate

Vaccinations

Passport

Visa

Relevant local union membership(s)

There is no fixed format for a cover letter. Neither is there such a thing as a perfect cover letter for offshore drilling employment. However, one thing is clear – your cover letter must have the above three important elements to persuade HR to read your resume.

Employment law solicitors help the company’s employers and employees to resolve any issues related to the contracts or services according to the employment laws. They help and work legally as per the needs of both employer and staff members. As an employee, you need to be conscious about employment laws and regulations. Employment law solicitors understand the rules of the entire employment system and fight for your legal rights in order to get profitable deal.

Employment law solicitors are needed in the below given situations:

1. In case of financial crisis if any company wants to dismiss any employee due to low performance, caught breaking company rules or any other reason than it becomes necessary to handle such situations legally. An employment law expert thoroughly study employment policies mentioned in company’s terms and conditions and guide you what exactly you should do to avoid any kind of further consequences. Such solicitors offer wide range of employment law services.

2. You can hire experts in case of wrongful dismissal, treated unfairly at work, expectant mothers, any complicated contract or any kind of injustice from employer side. Through their extensive knowledge, the experts help you a long way in conditioning your case. The professional solicitors keep you informed about the progress in your case and it makes you aware what steps have to be performed to get the greatest deal possible.

3. In case of discrimination due to any reason such as age, skin colour, sexuality, religion, gender etc. and unable to resolve such situations within the workplace. Race Discrimination Experts help you to fight legally against such unacceptable behaviour.

4. The employees’ contracts may change due to promotions or any change in the business rules. The employment lawyers make sure that there are no loopholes or conditions in the new staff contract so that neither employer nor any employee may exploit any contract.

5. You should take advice of employment lawyer for changing staff handbooks. To avoid misinterpretation, these handbooks should be maintained legally.

6. You can also take legal advice on how to follow the correct grievance and disciplinary procedures both as an employer or a staff member.

7. You can speak and take guidance from your employment lawyer if you think you have been unfairly dismissed from your work. It is better to take legal action if internal procedure is not proving successful.

Always choose right employment law experts

Try to select employment law experts which have necessary experience in dealing with the related issues. Check his/her qualification, success rates and number of such cases he/she have won. Check how many similar cases he has ever handled before. You can also ask friends, colleagues or well-wishers about any particular solicitor. They first analyse your situation and guide you what the future tactics are needed. As every situation is differ from other, so professional solicitors handle them in their own way.

Now it is important to make sure that your all documents and contracts must be legal and up-to-date to avoid any kind of trouble in the future.

Want any legal advice regarding your working issues? Just contact Whitecross Solicitors that provide advice and assistance to employers and employees and deal effectively with all legal issues in UK or visit us at www.whitecrosslawyers.com

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So you have a teen on the hunt for a half decent job but what are their options these days. Everyone is telling them to baby sit or get a paper delivery job but both are time consuming and pay third world country rates when it comes to money in their pocket. It is even harder trying to land a job position that has been advertised somewhere as employers receive hundreds and hundreds of applications when advertising in the current job market. A recent study showed that it is now taking the average person 4 7 months to find employment and they expect that figure to lengthen.

So what can I do you say, well thanks to modern technology all this is about to change. The days of searching endlessly for employment are fast coming to an end as the internet slowly takes over and starts filling this increasing need in the teen job market. When it comes to jobs for teens it is now possible for them to land their dream job in under ten minutes no matter who they are. When they take a job online there are no lengthy, intimidating interviews to go through and their application is always accepted no matter where you live or what qualifications they may or may not have. When you compare this to the difficulty of applying for and getting a normal advertised job it is no wonder that thousands of teens are switching to paid online jobs.

Paid online work beats traditional jobs hands down every time. Online jobs these days mostly consist of completing online surveys as these are generally higher paying when it comes to the types of work you can do online and they make fantastic jobs for teens. Most of these places are free to join and once they have signed up they can then start taking surveys and get very well paid for it. Most teens that are doing these surveys are earning at least $10 for a twelve minute survey with the money getting transferred to their account on completion.

The surveys themselves are extremely easy to complete and there is an unlimited number of different types of surveys that can be taken. There are no set times that they have to work, teens can quickly and easily work at their own pace as often or as little as they like each week, its up to them. By just taking 3 surveys per day, 5 days per week, a teen is capable of earning $150.00 per week. Just try finding a job anywhere else that pays as well as this that will hire them instantly.

Which survey companies they end up joining makes a huge difference to how much money they make. Pick the wrong ones and they could end up working for $2 – $5 per hour and getting very frustrated. Out of all the Free To Join paid survey sites online today there are only a small list of survey companies that have the genuine higher paying surveys available on a daily basis. Joining all of these top 7 companies ensures that they have and endless supply of high paying surveys to take every day when they log in.

So the choice is up to them, with the state of the current job market are they going to keep slogging it out looking for a position like everyone else or get hired instantly today and earn more money than they ever thought possible as a teenager.

How in the world can your index finger get seniors employment for you, or anyone? Let’s get back to that in a minute.

First a question! Are you a senior citizen and are you looking for a bona fide job? Or are you just sampling the waters and thinking that earning a few more dollars monthly will be a great sidekick for medicare or a pension?

The economy is tough right now. And living on a fixed income, as most seniors are, is an ongoing adventure in financial mathematics. Aging is not a dream. It is a very real event that finds everyone in time. But it does not disqualify anyone from the seniors employment market.

Why don’t we rephrase that statement. Because, as a senior, you most probably are out of running for some jobs. Maybe you won’t be able to do much heavy lifting or unloading, but that kind of labor is actually in the minority of senior job opportunities.

Let’s talk about your index finger now? Have you ever peeked into the cockpit of a commercial jet liner. Maybe you could see into it when you boarded a plane for a trip and the cockpit door might have been open.

That’s the nerve center of the airplane. It’s full of a thousand or more switches, buttons, levers, dials and other unknown equipment. Have you ever seen a commercial pilot with the biceps of Hercules. No, and do you know why not?

Because all the effort that’s required to operate the plane from the cockpit is mostly done with an index finger.

Do you get the point? Most seniors employment does in fact need a bit of physical activity, but the vast majority of jobs require much more in the way of mental dexterity.

Business leaders today are becoming more and more aware of the basic tenet, “senior citizens are a natural resource.” That’s you!

Just like the pilot of an air liner, you, as a senior, spent a lot of years learning how to live and work in today’s world. You probably had many jobs of work. All the actions you performed over the years of your life have undoubtedly given you a very diverse education in a bunch of fields.

And most of those fields can be used in any seniors employment you target for yourself. Think about it! You’ve learned how to live on a paycheck. That’s real battle field book keeping under fire.

You’ve dealt with coworkers and personal family members. That’s sales, customer relations, and real people negotiations. You’ve shopped and purchased merchandise. That’s buying and budgeting.

Dig into your own experience deeper, and you will find an array of jobs and real life experiences that you’ve had that qualifies you for most jobs that are out there. You’re a senior citizen and you’re a natural resource.

You may not be able to fill the position of being the pilot captain of a commercial air liner, but there exist many job openings that you can not only fill, but excel at. Go for it! You’ve got the hands on training and experience to back you up.