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4th November 2009: Christmas updates, remember to claim your umbrella company holiday pay
Apologies for the lack of recent posts, we've been preparing for the Christmas rush and ensuring things go smoothly takes precedence. It's all sorted now and Normal Service will resume this Friday, kicking off with a Legal Bits from Susan - covering the Agency Workers Directive, and a blog post from me discussing the broad topic of legislation changes. As for today, we have a few Public Service announcements about the lead up to Christmas.
As you will no doubt have seen on our front page we have a new offer for workers returning to Gabem or joining us for the first time. All they have to do is receive 4 payments through us before Christmas and they will receive a £50 voucher from either: Amazon, Tescos, Marks & Spencers, John Lewis, or Homebase. So tell your friends, there isn't much time left.
Keeping with the Christmas Theme, this year rather than send out cards as we have done each year we're going to be donating money to 4 charities. We have settled on "The Lighthouse Club" The construction industy charity as one of the charities, but would be interested to hear of any charities you think we should include. We can't make any promises that we will choose your charity, but they will all be considered, what have you got to lose? Just get in touch by emailing as usual.
Last thing on the Christmas front, a lot of you will be taking time off in December and it would probably be an excellent time to take the Holiday pay you have accrued through us. If you take it when you have no other payments going through you'll get the added advantage of less tax being taken from it. Remember we want all holiday paid out before April, because it doesn't carry over to the next financial year, you'll lose it. Just call in and our customer services department will take care of it.
Finally for those of you going to the National Online Recruitment Awards tomorrow, we'll see you there, as Trudy our MD will be handing out the award for "Best Employment Advice Website". We're very happy to be involved and want to wish all those nominated the best of luck.
Hugo
@GabemUmbrella
04/11/2009
