Bringing in a maid from out side the EU

iinvestor

How easy is it to bring a domestic worker from outside the EU

JoolzS

I'll bite! Pay her minimum wage - simple. Solves every question you asked.

Question you didn't ask - w n k r

Julie

iinvestor

JoolzS wrote: »

I'll bite! Pay her minimum wage - simple. Solves every question you asked.

Question you didn't ask - w n k r

Julie

Thank you for telling me how to spend my money

chika

£1.50 per hour!!! Wow, just wow. I wasn't aware slavery was still legal in Britain.

I worked in HR over the summer and to be honest you will have a hard job getting a visa for her. The CIPD website states that reasons for visas to be awarded are to:

Perform specialist jobs with skills that are not available in the UK or to fill vacancies for which there are not enough vacancies. (Among other reasons) so you would probably be unlikey to get a visa for a maid.

iinvestor

how did liz hurley do it ?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-516674/Liz-Hurley-tycoon-husband-paid-maid-little-1-20-hour.html

Parisien

chika wrote: »

£1.50 per hour!!! Wow, just wow. I wasn't aware slavery was still legal in Britain.

Eeeemmmmmmm....but its perfectly ok to pay them 15 pence an hour to make all those goods we buy off them? Am sure 60% of manufactured goods in your own home are made in China.

So she comes here, gets 10 times the wage back home......slavery?

So if your wage here is £15 an hour, you go to Japan to work for £70 an hour ....equates to slavery?

whitewing

Well, there's your answer. Find any old way of bringing her here & then get taken to tribunal.

iinvestor

Parisien wrote: »

Eeeemmmmmmm....but its perfectly ok to pay them 15 pence an hour to make all those goods we buy off them? Am sure 60% of manufactured goods in your own home are made in China.

So she comes here, gets 10 times the wage back home......slavery?

So if your wage here is £15 an hour, you go to Japan to work for £70 an hour ....equates to slavery?

My thoughts exactly, Plus she would get all her bills and food paid for. and in china most of the population don't even make 1.50 a day let alone an hour! :T:T:T

chika

Unfortunatly the woman wouldn't be in China, she would be in the UK where £1.50 ph isn't acceptable. Your arguements are based on cost of living - in the UK its much higher than in China therefore wages are higher. Even if you fund her accomodation and food, I still think anyone would struggle on such a paltry wage. I take it you are also going to give her four weeks annual leave and offer healthcare?

Just because Liz Hurley did it it doesn't make it right. If you read on you will see that her meanness cost here dear when she has to give her ex employee a settlement.

soolin

New immigration rules would make this difficult now you need all sorts of permits based on the type of work and availability of UK workers in the EU. If you get it wrong you are liable both for all her costs in appealing any restriction plus all the fines etc that the border agency levy. The new rules are worrying even large businesses as they are complicated and the fines are large if you misinterpret them, :

http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/employers/points/

Once your maid arrives here and finds out her rights you may well then be faced with another problem of her demanding a fair wage knowing that you pay any fines or penalties that she incurs by being here without work if you choose not to pay her more.

skylight

You have to pay minimum wage, but you are allowed to deduct £4.46 per day from her wages for accommodation. You are then better off not including food/transport etc and allowing her to sort that out herself from her wages as you cannot make deductions for these if they take her wages below minimum wage (only the deduction for accommodation can do that). Or you pay her as above and then she hands over some back for rent and food etc as she would in a private home she may live in for expenditure. Of course, the amounts have to be reasonable and realistic.


Then its the visa's and stuff...