Thanks, My boss informed me of this, and is looking into it, they have assured me me that they want to employ me at the salary we agreed on, so I may be being a bit premature in worrying, however this has come about six weeks after accepting the offer with no other contact from the hr dept. I was informed that the fixed term would not be renewed when it came to an end, hence I am now working without a contract. There was a start date on the provisional offer, which was within the term of the fixed tern contract.

Hi, I'm after a bit of advice, I've search around and not really found anything that mirrors my situation, sorry for the long post. I was on a fixed term one year contract, fully employed as an internal member of staff, receiving all the benefits of a permanent member of staff. Around three months prior to the end of the fixed term contract, permanent positions were advertised for essentially the same job, I applied, interviewed, did some tests, and a couple of weeks later got offered the job. A provisional offer was sent to me with a salary, and I decided to negotiate this. My managers agreed to my requested salary and I was told of this, and to await a new offer after HR had agreed the salary. I was told by HR I was an internal member of staff so the only pre employment check needed was one reference from my current manager, which was done, and I presume was favorable, seen as they offered me the job. A new provisional/conditional offer was sent to me, at the agreed salary approx four weeks later, the conditions seemed like pretty standard pre employment checks, health questionnaire, qualifications, ID, references. I accepted the offer and sent an email to the HR contact to confirm whether any of the above was needed, as I had been told I was internal and did not need to provide this info again, and the one reference from my current manager had been provided. I received no response. My fixed term contract came to an end, however I continued to work full time and have now been working for a month essentially on no contract, being paid the same as when I was on the fixed term contract. I wasn't particularly worried about this, or having no contract as when I first started I didn't receive the actual contract until about a month into the job. However I have now been informed that HR want to retract the job offer. I'm unsure whether they want to retract the offer entirely or retract and make a new offer at a lower salary, I suspect the latter, although it could be the former. I have searched around and understand that conditional job offers can be retracted, however all the conditions of the job offer seem to have been satisfied. Plus the situation seems to be complicated by the fact that I have been working in the new job and been paid (at my old salary) for this work. Any advice? Thanks in advance P

Thanks for the quick replies. Ive said to the agent that we'd prefer to pay it ourselves, now waiting to hear what they say back. Do you think having it written into the contract that the landlord is meant to be paying it would make any difference, or is that pointless?

Hi Me and a friend are just about to sign a contract on a flat, we were going to pay all bills inc. council tax. However the landlord has requested that they keep the council tax in their name. I could't see any problem with this but after thinking about it I coudn't see why they would particularly want too. The only thing i could think of was that they are planning to say it is a single occupancy or a second home, then claim discount leaving us to pay the full amount to them(effectively increasing our rent to them), especially as they said if we wanted car parking permits they would sort them out. (i'm thinking we wouldn't be registered there with the council). Anyone got any advice, or am I just being paranoid? Thanks