Sorry, a bit of a long post but sleep deprived and NEED your opinions/advice on this:
A few weeks back & all of a sudden I found a nannyshare partner, both of us first-timers to hiring a nanny.
The nanny we verbally agreed to hire has in the past been registered to be self employed. She asked for £2 more than all the other candidate nannies as gross pay if she was self-employed and £1.50 more than all the others if we wanted to PAYE.
At the time we all thought fine, let's go the self-employed route. It's only now, just as we need to finalise her contract that we realise that she HAS to be PAYE and of course that this is a lot more expensive if we pay what she asked for. We are a week into settling sessions and should have contracts ready early next week so she can officially start work the next.
I know, we are stupid/naive, but it's been less than a fortnight since interviews and I have only just had time to look into it.
The other half of the nannyshare is saying that they now think it's too much to PAYE her even at the lower rate the other nannies requested and is proposing 2 days PAYE at less than she wants and 1 day cash in hand at what she wants.
Apart from having no idea whether she would accept that, we really do not want to do any cash in hand and want to PAYE.
We are struggling to find a compromise solution and wondering whether to just cut out now before we get even further down the road. We are already saying 'but she gets on with the kids really well'.
OOH I feel like a jerk for what will appear to be a last minute u-turn to the nanny. OTOH she has quite a lot of experience so I suspect she knows that she must be employed/on PAYE - her pricing structure seems to be an attempt to make the self employed route more attractive.
I am really at the stage of tearing my hair out while kicking myself at this situation and would so grateful for any advice you have!! I am so tired I am going round in circles.