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    Employee claiming unfair dismissal

    funny you mention it. I was only thinking yesterday how I generally learn from others' mistakes rather than my own. So much easier. Part of the reason I read this forum actually. Just missed a trick on this one. Been too tied up just basic sustaining a business this year.
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    Employee claiming unfair dismissal

    I have spent every single penny on my business for 11 years. I did x2 jobs in order to achieve this. This year I earnt a meagre salary of 12k but I did spend 50k on tools, vehicles, plant etc. Next year I wont be spending that 50k plus I'll be earning more based on the hire and utility of said...
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    Employee claiming unfair dismissal

    I am aware of this as this is one of the reasons I chose to become a ltd company in the first place. However, it's of little reassurance when you have put every thing into your business with future gain in mind. If I lose it, I wont be starting again. 11 years would have been wasted.
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    Employee claiming unfair dismissal

    I don't have all bases covered. I am a struggling small businessman and I work incessantly. I have nothing but the business and some minor personal assets. I have done more for this particular person than any employee ever including personally give him some money to get out of a tight...
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    Employee claiming unfair dismissal

    Thanks for the feedback. The bottom line is I am struggling to keep all of them in employment despite spending money on marketing. One person has to go. I have already 2 weeks ago stopped providing work for a sub contractor. All staff at that time were notified that we were struggling and that...
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    Employee claiming unfair dismissal

    If it be deemed that he has been in continuous employment for me and that is over 2 years then he is entitled to 2 weeks minimum notice period. Perhaps the safest o I have not documented much as most things are dealt with verbally. Boundaries are put in place, they pushed on and pushed back...
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    Employee claiming unfair dismissal

    Yeah you're spot on on this one. This character is going to milk it for all it's worth. He's one of life's takers, that will find any use any reason he can to avoid responsibility for his god awful life choices and neglect of general personal responsibility.
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    Employee claiming unfair dismissal

    I should add that this guy was never on a contract. He is the only one who did not have a written contract. The reasons that he didn't have one were as follows; -He was given a great package with 8% pension and accumulative holiday allowance, bonus scheme, near top end salary for his job...
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    Employee claiming unfair dismissal

    Well he was the most expensive member of staff and the most unreliable who took the most time off sick self cert. Losing him was more practical for the business and most optimally likely to stabilise the largest no. of remaining jobs. That's a logical fact.
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    Employee claiming unfair dismissal

    Hello all. I had to lay off an employee recently. He is claiming that the dismissal is unfair and is not due to lack of work. We did have an altercation prior to the dismissal which tipped the balance against him in favour of my not risking continuing to employ him but it was a dismissal due to...
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    Insurance backing for installation guarantees

    I understand this. What you're not grasping though is that there are properties that back on to main roads where it is not easily notable who's property the fence is for. In some cases the customer will rarely ever pass by that direction and the sign being on the back side of their fence is...
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    Insurance backing for installation guarantees

    We already put small signs on most of our more public fences and they do bring in business. I know one particular fence has brought in 20+ calls from a 3"x 2" sign. Customers don't seem to mind, despite not being paid anything for them. How is this a bad idea from a marketing point of view?
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    Insurance backing for installation guarantees

    There are a lot of houses with a rear garden fencing that faces on to a public highway. I randomly viewed one on Friday and I knocked on the door of one on Saturday. Both local and will have 1000's of passers by. The one I knocked on Saturday randomly had no cold calling signs on the front door...
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    Insurance backing for installation guarantees

    Yes I agree it is very beautiful. That is why I came back here in my later years. Not very densely populated though which also great, but not for business.
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    Insurance backing for installation guarantees

    Again I get what you're saying and yes the dream ticket is to sell your own product but from my point of view in this time period where fencing material prices have inflated astronomically and work is dying down, being the only approved installer of this easy to use product with 100 miles, that...
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