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Hi All
I wonder if you could help me advertise the salary in a job ad.
I am in the process of advertising a job vacancy, but I am not sure how to offer to pay the person. The person will be working independently 2 or 3 days per week, i.e. it will be difficult to keep track of hours worked. I have been having a look at job websites, and have noticed the salary/wages are normally advertised as per hour or per annum. I would like to advertise a day rate of £100, so if the person works 8 days during the month, they would get £800 (before tax) on their payslip. Is that legal?
The company may not be able to offer work all the time. Currently the person would be working around 3 days per week, but it is possible that during some weeks we may only be able to offer one day, or during busy periods we could offer 5 days per week.
If a day rate of pay is not possible, I thought that the next option could be to employ the person on a 'Zero Hour Contract'. As it is difficult to know how many hours per day the person will be working, we would establish in the contract that the working day is 8 hours, so every day the person works they would fill in a timesheet with 8 hours irrespective of the number of hours actually worked. Some days they may work 6 hours, other days they may work 9 hours, but they would always add 8 hours to the timesheet. We could then advertise a rate of £12.50 per hour which would work like £100 per day.
I would be most grateful for your thoughts regarding this matter.
Regards
P
I wonder if you could help me advertise the salary in a job ad.
I am in the process of advertising a job vacancy, but I am not sure how to offer to pay the person. The person will be working independently 2 or 3 days per week, i.e. it will be difficult to keep track of hours worked. I have been having a look at job websites, and have noticed the salary/wages are normally advertised as per hour or per annum. I would like to advertise a day rate of £100, so if the person works 8 days during the month, they would get £800 (before tax) on their payslip. Is that legal?
The company may not be able to offer work all the time. Currently the person would be working around 3 days per week, but it is possible that during some weeks we may only be able to offer one day, or during busy periods we could offer 5 days per week.
If a day rate of pay is not possible, I thought that the next option could be to employ the person on a 'Zero Hour Contract'. As it is difficult to know how many hours per day the person will be working, we would establish in the contract that the working day is 8 hours, so every day the person works they would fill in a timesheet with 8 hours irrespective of the number of hours actually worked. Some days they may work 6 hours, other days they may work 9 hours, but they would always add 8 hours to the timesheet. We could then advertise a rate of £12.50 per hour which would work like £100 per day.
I would be most grateful for your thoughts regarding this matter.
Regards
P
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