My business partner and I are going to be hiring our first employee in our cleaning business...we have been advised she invoices us for the months work etc as a self employed basis. Apart from our Employers Insurance is there anything else we need to think about??
On a nearly related note, yesterday a retired client picked up books and papers he'd been promising to do for years.
Nine months ago, solicitors launched an action against him on behalf of a worker who allegedly suffered hearing injuries whilst carrying out joinery duties ten to fifteen years ago. The unusual thing is the worker was never directly employed by my ex-clients: he submitted invoices and carried his own insurance etc.
The solicitors made their common mistake of finding the registered office at Companies House. If they can do this why don't they look to see if the entity had ever traded? I've lost count of the times I've seen that same fundamental error by lawyers. The opening letter therefore came here first and presumably they've been at a loss of what to do after I enjoyed disappointing them.
It makes me wonder if they've even noticed that the chap wasn't even an employee. They use the phrase "employed by" a little to readily for my taste though I've a suspicion the chap didn't work for anyone else very much at the time!
