New person needed, help please

Hi all,I run a small garden maintenance company based in Brentwood,I work most days,except my on duty fire brigad days, I have 3-4 bods who give me 1-3 days per week but no one full time. My van is off the rd for 2 days per wk, most weeks for my 2 days shifts.I need this to change. I'm looking for a :-ReliableTrustworthy / HonestHard workingsemi retired, or early redundancy taken person,Who can drive (with trailer, prepared to pay for that bit of license)Not looking for a Percy Thrower but a little garden experience would be beneficialExperience of petrol tools again would be great.I suppose I have someone in the 45-50 age bracket who have 5-10 years left in them.Probably on a 9 month contractAround £400 pwWhat sort of holiday is needed to be paid for a 9 month contract.I also heard most people in this bracket will already be doing themselves already!Does anyone have anyone similar to this, how did hey find them, where did they advertise, how many bods did they have to go through to find that person.Any help would be appreciated

It is illegal to specify, seek or aim to only employ a certain age group (and I personally find your targeting offensive). You can not specify Age, Gender or Race in a job specification.

To calcuate holiday pay, based on hours worked the following site explains the law as it is;
https://www.gov.uk/holiday-entitlement-rights/entitlement

Also remember if you roll over the contracts several years running, you have a permanent member of staff no matter what yo may think, as the law treats the rolling contract as an attempt to circumvent employment legislation.

so If you employed said employee for say 4 years, on annual renewing contracts, at year 5 you could not simply NOT renew, as the employee would be seen as legally a permanant employee and you were using rolling fta (fixed term apointments) to circumvent their employment rights.

Also even if you terminate at the end of year two, for whatever reason, the employee is now eligible for redundancy pay....

In the Governments own words;"Any employee on fixed-term contracts for 4 or more years will automatically become a permanent employee, unless the employer can show there is a good business reason not to do so."

worth reading this site;

https://www.gov.uk/fixed-term-contracts/renewing-or-ending-a-fixedt...

Replies

Geoff Norfolk July 2, 2013 at 9:57pm

I suppose I have someone in the 45-50 age bracket who have 5-10 years left in them.

I guess that means I've had it lol!!
David Cox July 2, 2013 at 10:05pm

It is illegal to specify, seek or aim to only employ a certain age group (and I personally find your targeting offensive). You can not specify Age, Gender or Race in a job specification.

To calcuate holiday pay, based on hours worked the following site explains the law as it is;
https://www.gov.uk/holiday-entitlement-rights/entitlement

Also remember if you roll over the contracts several years running, you have a permanent member of staff no matter what yo may think, as the law treats the rolling contract as an attempt to circumvent employment legislation.

so If you employed said employee for say 4 years, on annual renewing contracts, at year 5 you could not simply NOT renew, as the employee would be seen as legally a permanant employee and you were using rolling fta (fixed term apointments) to circumvent their employment rights.

Also even if you terminate at the end of year two, for whatever reason, the employee is now eligible for redundancy pay....

In the Governments own words;"Any employee on fixed-term contracts for 4 or more years will automatically become a permanent employee, unless the employer can show there is a good business reason not to do so."

worth reading this site;

https://www.gov.uk/fixed-term-contracts/renewing-or-ending-a-fixedt...
Jim Davidson July 2, 2013 at 10:55pm

Sounds ideal for an ex-fireman or ex-copper