Work issue

[kittie01]

I run a after school club for one hour a day and have recently decided to leave where I work. Lots of different reasons, treated badly by staff and parents paying late constantly turning up late etc. I employ a lady who is lovely. A few years ago I started asking for a deposit to hold places and a parent called into the principal giving out and the principal told me I can’t do that. For years the principal said the club is nothing to do with her and never got involved until recently. I went to work yesterday and was told by a girl that works there that she was told a parent is taking over my job, bear in mind this is my business that I set up there years ago. I saw the principal several times that day but she said nothing to me. I was going to ask her after work was it true someone was taking over etc. She stopped me in the corridor and said parent is taking over and the lady I employ may not have a job. She wants me to pass over all details to the lady that’s taking over. Am I being unreasonable to be annoyed that she expects me to just hand everything over and annoyed that the lady I employ is losing her job? I’ve built up a great reputation over the years and now several parents are taking their children out of the service. The service is full for the next couple of years so I feel someone is going to gain on my hard work and my reputation and as I’ve done all the ground work like taking calls answering emails and texts. I feel I should be paid not a huge sum but something to reflect all the ground work I’ve done.

Op, are any of rhe customers not parents of kids at the school? Where do you get the customers from in the first place?

So confusing. Definitely not the best idea to ask strangers on the internet for advice, always a risk of coming across too many Suits-obsessed armchair lawyers. Even worse to ask for advice without disclosing the jurisdiction.

Having said that, some sensible suggestions on this thread. The most sensible one is this: see a lawyer. In your own jurisdiction. If you're selling a business, you need advice, contracts and due diligence.

Also this: Depends - your business, with a name? Then you own the rights and they need to set up and call it something else.

is partially correct. Partially, because it depends on the circumstances. For example, if you're selling as a going concern, there is a possibility of assigning such rights (in return for consideration) under the contract that your lawyer should draft for you. S/he will also discuss data protection issues with you.

Going by a couple of phrases OP uses, plus the title school principal instead of head teacher, I'm making an educated guess that OP is in the Republic of Ireland. In case this helps anyone give her legal advice. Best of luck, OP.

TUPE may apply even if it is a casual let. You need to contact your LA early years for advice.

Sorry- just seen not in the Uk and so ignore above.

Could you set up somewhere else and collect the kids from school?

So you have quit but don't want someone else to provide the same service you have been and if they do you want to be paid and for your member of staff to be kept on?

No way would I hand anything over. I would rather delete all computer files, shred all paperwork and walk away, but I can be bloody minded when annoyed.

I also don’t understand op because you start off saying you decided to leave due to the issues, then finish by saying you’re being “tossed out like you’re nothing”

It can’t be both, either you decided to leave, and the employee would have lost her job anyway, and the school has decided to continue the club but don’t need that employee.

Or they have terminated you and you wished to continue with the other woman.

As said, it can’t be both as your saying it is,

I'm confused too, Bluntness. The tossed out comment doesn't fit with saying she's leaving. OP, if you're closing your club, it's you who's making your employee redundant, isn't it? The school is just making sure there's a replacement club starting up so that the kids/parents are covered. No doubt you've done a good job over the years, but it's a captive market, those customers need the service no matter who's running it, and you were presumably paid as you went along, so I don't think it fits the model of an independent business that you can get compensated for, especially as you've chosen to close it. Do get legal advice though, and be really clear about the situation so there's no further confusion.

So. If there was no new person coming forward to take the club over, what would have happened to it? What would have happened to the employee’s job then?