What are you paying your employees

[Pjj]

I have been employing on a part time basis and also been getting back into plastering which I am experienced and competent at like last Saturday when I did a private job for a mate for £360 for a days work skimming a whole bedroom and ceiling
If that takes off I will need to employ full time for the windows
Too old to be outside in winter now lol

Plastering is hard work especially ceilings, I would rather be doing windows outside ?????

 

[Iron Giant]

£15 an hour is a decent wage on a decent guaranteed weekly contract. It isn't on a zero hour contract as it doesn't mean anything is guaranteed

Yes, mate but unfortunately unlike locom doctors and supply teachers who do work on an adhoc basis for a lot more money than what they'd normally be paid other jobs just aren't like that.

If we go back to the authors original question of what is a decent hourly rate, then I assumed that anyone looking to employ and pay a decent hourly rate that they'd have the work to provide a 40hr week or whatever it is they need to an employee to work even if that was a 20hr week as long as they ain't stringing someone along with a zero hours contract.

 

[Iron Giant]

I have been employing on a part time basis and also been getting back into plastering which I am experienced and competent at like last Saturday when I did a private job for a mate for £360 for a days work skimming a whole bedroom and ceiling
If that takes off I will need to employ full time for the windows
Too old to be outside in winter now lol

I'd sooner be outside than inside a freezing cold house house with cold wet plaster, maybe wear a pair of trousers and you might not feel so old or is this why you are wearing shorts all year round ?

 

[steve garwood]

I'd sooner be outside than inside a freezing cold house house with cold wet plaster, maybe wear a pair of trousers and you might not feel so old or is this why you are wearing shorts all year round ?

That’s the first thing that came to my mind as well

 

[Part Timer]

That’s the first thing that came to my mind as well

And working all day Saturday ?

 

[Iron Giant]

That’s the first thing that came to my mind as well

I'm just an outdoors person, yes certain days it would be good to have something else to do if the weather is a complete write-off for the windows and you can have a bit of crack with a customer or other trades if other lads are in a house.

 

[Yogi1872]

Itl work out I'm paying the guy who's helping me £31.50 an hour today. My mates been out the last couple of months, to help him out with Xmas I'm giving him 70% of what the total is he does. Or if working together il half what we do and take 70% of that number. He's a very good mate though and has done me massive favours in the past.

 

[Iron Giant]

Itl work out I'm paying the guy who's helping me £31.50 an hour today. My mates been out the last couple of months, to help him out with Xmas I'm giving him 70% of what the total is he does. Or if working together il half what we do and take 70% of that number. He's a very good mate though and has done me massive favours in the past.

I know you're Scottish could you please translate, because my heads battered trying to work out what you are trying to tell us

 

[Cleanco]

Itl work out I'm paying the guy who's helping me £31.50 an hour today. My mates been out the last couple of months, to help him out with Xmas I'm giving him 70% of what the total is he does. Or if working together il half what we do and take 70% of that number. He's a very good mate though and has done me massive favours in the past.

Sounds more like your subbing your mate some work on a self employed basis that and not employing.

 

[steve garwood]

Sounds more like your subbing your mate some work on a self employed basis that and not employing.

When I ‘employed’ that’s what I did.
Sold him the round in the end and he’s still doing very well ?

 

[Yogi1872]

Sounds more like your subbing your mate some work on a self employed basis that and not employing.

He's between jobs, he's no interest in doing this all the time. We usually just work together everyday. Hel work himself 2 or 3 days a week until Xmas now and il give him 70% of what he does. The days we work together il half the final total of amount of work done then give him 70% of what it adds up too.

If I'm behind I'd get him doing that but he'd usually only get an hourly rate.

 

[Countphil]

Could you pay a percentage of the van's takings as a wage? Say, he gets minimum wage for up to 4K cleaned, but everything over 4K he gets 50%?

The percentage take could motivate him significantly.

 

[anderclean]

haven't had a chance to read all the way thu yet
But
is any one paying their staff sick pay ?
is it do'able ?

 

[P4dstar]

haven't had a chance to read all the way thu yet
But
is any one paying their staff sick pay ?
is it do'able ?

People are automatically entitled to ssp. Thanks to Kier Jong Un employees will be entitled to this from day one of starting a job… that’s mental in itself. Even large companies don’t give full sick pay (which is I assume what you’re referring to). I know of several that used to, they’re all giving different terms to new employees. Paid sick leave breeds poor behaviours.

In the US a lot of companies allow you to accrue sick days. People who are switched on then use those sick days years later when they have a serious health condition. People who aren’t switched on use it as part of their annual holiday allowance. Then they get a serious health condition and loan the company won’t support them.