[dustdees]

hi all.

One question about contracts of employment.

All my girls are having 16 hour contracts, some will work over that and some stick at the 16hours.

So here it comes.:

If a member of my team work their basic 16hrs a week and can't do more than that and one of their clients cancels for that week, (i.e on holiday, etc) is there a way in which they can be paid minus the canceled.

So if they if they have a 16hour contract but have only 14hrs work that week, do you have to pay then 16hours?

How do you experianced people get over that one, without taking two hours of another cleaner, hence reducing their hours?

I know I don't explain things very well, sorry!!

cheers Denise

[mxg]

Denise

We never guarantee hours in a contract because we can't guarantee from week to week what is going to happen. As you say people go on holidays, people are ill and don't want you in the house, people have builders/painters in and don't want you in the house, people stop taking our services for various reasons. We (the company) don't get paid on these occasions so I am am not going to be paying somebody else.

I don't know how this stacks up legally but it seems "fair" to me and nobody has ever really complained so far

Mick

[Fox]

Yep same here - always use a contract with no fixed hours.  I suspect you are hoping to issue 16hr contracts so that your employees can claim tax credits - if this is the case you still don't need to put the hours on a contract just supply information when asked that they have worked for the last 4 weeks (or how ever many wks you are asked for) at those hours and that you expect their hours to stay the same for the forseeable future.

Fox

[*Chris Browne]

Im lost here, are you saying that you have given your cleaners a contract saying that you will supply them with 16 hours work per week??

You need to get your client to sign a contract saying amount of hours/days per c.m.
that way they pay a set amount each PCM regardless of how many days they are not there etc, that way your staff still get paid because you have been paid. i know its difficult with domestics, but i know some do it this way.

chris

[dustdees]

Hi Fox ans mxg,
thanks for your replies.

how do you go about paying holiday pay and stuff.

if you have a copy of a contract would it be possible for me to have a copy please?

if you have could you e-mail it to:
 dustdees@yahoo.co.uk

many thanks

denise