I now employ 12 staff, regardless of what anybody else says there is no way I could be earning what I do now if I still worked on my own, there are just not enough hours in the day. If you want to be able to retire and still have an income coming in then you need to grow your business and get others to work for you, to your standards and expectations, you also need to pay accordingly.
You need to operate as a business, in my former life I was a factory manager with 250 staff working under me, the same principles apply if you are employing just one person. Make sure both you and they understand what is expected, if they fail in any area, be it performance, attendance, discipline or whatever, then it has to be dealt with professionally and documented accordingly.
All my guys and girls know what the standards are, they have a copy of what I expect, they know what their Terms of employment are, what their sick pay and holiday pay is, basically it's all in black and white with signed copies of everything, if they fail or underperform then I will deal with it and document it for our records.
I sacked a lad earlier on in the year for poor performance, gave him one weeks pay in lieu of notice and got rid of him on the same day.
If this person has worked for you for less than a year then you can get rid of them quite easily, they have very few legal rights. But in future get a signed contract from them as early as possible.
John, I will send you a copy of our Contracts tonight.
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