Hiring Self Employed Workers

[JohnSmith67]

Hello,

I am considering starting a car detailing business.

At the beginning, I would like to work with other car detailers to generate more revenue and scale quicker. I am considering hiring self employed Car detailers to carry out some of the work I get from my customers. They would be self employed registered and would be paid per job they complete and not paid an hourly wage like an employee.

They could be working up to 10-15 jobs for my business per week.
They would invoice our business for each job upon completion.

I was wondering if I could do this and have them as self employed without any questions being asked about whether they should be an employee or anything?

Thanks for your time.

 

[Mark T Jones]

Here are the indicators of whether your people will qualify as self employed or not

 

[IanSuth]

Basically as long as you pay per job, they can decide whether or not to take the job and can substitute someone else to do the work plus they supply the tools of the trade, you should get away with it.

The more control you want to exert over the work and workers the more chance they could be classified as a disguised employee with all the subsequent costs (back claiming of employers NI etc)

 

[Socio South West]

If your contractors are invoicing your company exclusively any investigation will lean very heavily towards deciding they should be considered employees.

To strengthen your case for them being contractors, make sure they are invoicing a sensible percentage of their income to other businesses - I would guess minumum 20%, but others may have more experience/knowledge of this.

 

[Newchodge]

Hello,

I am considering starting a car detailing business.

At the beginning, I would like to work with other car detailers to generate more revenue and scale quicker. I am considering hiring self employed Car detailers to carry out some of the work I get from my customers. They would be self employed registered and would be paid per job they complete and not paid an hourly wage like an employee.

They could be working up to 10-15 jobs for my business per week.
They would invoice our business for each job upon completion.

I was wondering if I could do this and have them as self employed without any questions being asked about whether they should be an employee or anything?

Thanks for your time.

Who will supply their equipment/materials? Will they wear unifrom? If they are mobile who will supply their vehicles?

 

[MyAccountantOnline]

Hello,

I am considering starting a car detailing business.

At the beginning, I would like to work with other car detailers to generate more revenue and scale quicker. I am considering hiring self employed Car detailers to carry out some of the work I get from my customers. They would be self employed registered and would be paid per job they complete and not paid an hourly wage like an employee.

They could be working up to 10-15 jobs for my business per week.
They would invoice our business for each job upon completion.

I was wondering if I could do this and have them as self employed without any questions being asked about whether they should be an employee or anything?

Thanks for your time.

It's something you need to be very careful with.

Getting employment status wrong can be expensive.

Have a read here https://www.gov.uk/employment-status?step-by-step-nav=dc77c606-cc6b-49ac-9f40-b96959d02539

 

[thetiger2015]

They could be working up to 10-15 jobs for my business per week.
They would invoice our business for each job upon completion.

That may be classed as full time employment. 15 jobs Monday to Friday is 3 jobs per day, a detail can take a few hours. They won't be able to fit any other jobs in?

A full car detail, including interior, can take 6 to 8 hours to complete. Especially on luxury vehicles. You've also got to consider things like insurance, liability for damages etc.

 

[JEREMY HAWKE]

You could do yourself up like a kipper
Even owner driver taxi people are winning employment rights cases now

 

[JohnSmith67]

Who will supply their equipment/materials? Will they wear unifrom? If they are mobile who will supply their vehicles?

They would supply their own equipment and Whatever clothes they decide to wear/Uniform.

 

[JohnSmith67]

You could do yourself up like a kipper
Even owner driver taxi people are winning employment rights cases now

I'm not familiar with the phrase "Kipper".

 

[Scalloway]

do yourself up like a kipper

British idiom for one who has been totally bamboozled or taken advantage of by another.
A kipper is a herring that has been split, salted and smoked, typically eaten at breakfast time.