I’m about to set up a new business, recruiting nursery nurses. Most of these will be ‘bank/supply staff’, i.e. they’ll work temporarily across a number of different nurseries. I’m getting really conflicting advice from a number of sources (including my solicitor) about how they should be paid.
Option 1 - they are responsible for their own tax and I pay them when they invoice me.
Option 2 - they are on my payroll (PAYE) and I’m responsible for their tax, sick pay and pension, etc.
Obviously option 1 appeals to me the most (option 2 will increase my costs by about 50%) but I’d be really grateful if people who know more about this than me can share their experiences. If you’ve worked as nursery supply staff, how have you been paid?
I know this post might make me sound very inexperienced - I’m really not It’s just that I’m keen to be as fair as employer as possible. My original goal was to pay at least 10-20% more than the going rate per hour because I truly want childcare workers to be paid fairly for the work and experience they have but I can’t do this with option 2 - the overheads are just too much.
Thanks.
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NurseryRecruit · 14/10/2018 22:58
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