HR / Payroll advise needed - new hire

[name4]

I have been asked by an employer to work with them for 6 months on the payrolls in India. After this period, I will be on a UK salary.

This is a small Indian co with some clients in the UK. I am from India and live here now. I had worked this co. in India before for a short period.
I had taken a long break and now can't seem to get interviews.
I had asked employer (owner), with whom I have kept in touch all this time, if I can be given a part time salary or freelance income in the UK in initial period. Answer was - No, sorry.

I am desperate to get back to work and Co. offers services in a highly sought after area globally. Though their style of working at times is over promises to clients with no planning, chaotic and stressful.

I have following concerns -

This might not be legally or ethically correct - to work in UK and earn a salary in India.

Also, if for some reasons things don't work out with this co. and I leave after 6 months, I might not have a salary proof as money is going to an India bank account.

I would really appreciate your advice.

many thanks.

anyone?

Name4 your post is confusing I’m afraid.

International employment law is complex and working for a global company and being paid in a different currency will have tax and employee contract implications. It’s complicated and I doubt many people on MN will have experience of this.

Is the company a Limited Company with Companies House in the UK or is it an Indian based Company? If limited Co, they can pay you via PAYE in the UK but they’d need to have a PAYE number.

The other option is for you to be a contractor / self employed and invoice him for payment (which he’s refused). Which implies he doesn’t want to pay in GPB.

If you’ve asked and he’s said no, then perhaps it’s not meant to be.

Thanks Snuggle

Co. is not really international. It's a small co in India, also registered in UK. Owner has moved to UK on entrepreneur visa recently. He is required to create 2 jobs for UK settled resident/citizen latest by end of this year
He hasn't been able to fill these vacancies, it seems. I have 6 months left before my visa status allows me to fulfil this visa criteria.
He wants to avoid UK's minimum wages for next 6 months and get me kind of trained on a very low Indian salary, which won't be acceptable here by laws and then by the time I have ILR/citizenship offer me a UK salary.

Also, he has told me he will transfer my salary in India to someone else's bank account. I need to check why someone else's account. I am checking with an accountant in India if I can receive a salary there while being a resident of another country. All this communication is through text messages.

That sounds like a bad idea. I wouldn't be touching him and his company with a barge pole.

Ignoring the employment law and taxation issues for a moment, what makes you think you would ever see any of the low salary he will pay into someone else's account?

It would be much simpler for him to hire your services as a self employed contractor, but I'm guessing he doesn't want any paper trail.

All sounds very promising.

Thanks everyone.

Here I don't think his intention is to run away with my salary. I had worked with this co. before.
I am worried about how an arrangement like this for 6 months will impact my future background checks.
I am only considering this role out of desperation of not finding another job, I can work here for 2.5 years to build job history and skill-sets.

If he transfers salary in my mum's account in India for next 6 months and give me a proper contract in UK after that period. Will this ever be an issue in future backgrounds checks?