Am I being soft or is boyfriend being unreasonable? (Cleaner related)

[Hercy]

We have a cleaner who comes once a fortnight and does 2 -2.5 hours for £25. She's a very nice lady, but for various reasons, we've decided we no longer want her.

She's an ok cleaner, but her English isn't very good, which causes practical problems. Particularly as we have a Labrador which she seems terrified of, so it becomes difficult trying to keep him out the way - we can't even communicate enough to say 'can you clean the bathrooms first then I'll take him for a walk and get out your way'. As well as various other communication problems.

Now the crux of the matter,I feel awful depriving her of income, and want to give her £100 as a 'severance' payment. In effect this is 6 weeks notice in hand. My boyfriend wants to give her £50 so effectively 2 weeks notice in hand. Or do you think it would be better to give her x weeks notice and she still comes and cleans (and is obviously paid) for those weeks with no extra 'payout'. I know that she has recently lost clients in our road who moved away, so want to make sure we don't leave her in the lurch too much.

First world problems eh.

Op - a terrible situation. Why not send me the £100 and i will handle the dismissal of the entirely cash in hand non contractual person?

Not at all, doingthesplitz. I was not being obnoxious. I read all posts on MN without commenting on poor language or grammar. I am not a pedant. I do, however, dislike the anti-foreigner bias displayed by southbank. As themaltesecat says, my point was simply that if you are going to slag someone off for not speaking English, do it in proper English:)

My advice to the OP? 50 pounds is very generous, and you and your boyfriend are kind people.

Ah, it wasn't you southbank with the 'let her speak English" post, it was QuintessentialOldDear.

EvieanneVolvic
Kukes is where hubby was born, I adopted it after one to many "this user name is taken".

In today's dog-eat-dog world, I would err on the more generous side.

Love how you and your dp are basically arguing about how much cash to give away

Wouldn't it be funny if the person being discussed due to her written English was in fact someone whom has come to England and it isn't their first language......

OP, I am with the give what you can afford camp. It's a nice gesture and if she's recently lost other jobs, it will no doubt come in handy. Three years is long enough that you can be kind to her, assuming of course that there's never been any question of her stealing or things going missing.

I'd go with the £100 if I could afford it.

LoveBeingUpAt4InTheMorning
I think it was an uncalled for comment and judgement wherever the poster is from, whatever their written language is.