Preparedness for when

COOLTRIKERCHICK

maybe not connected with SHTF, BUT.... it could be lol..


I employ a few staff, and my accountant told me a day or so ago, that from the 6th April, if any of my staff are off on sick, and they get Stat Sick Pay... I can not claim that back from HMRC..


so to me this is the government shifting responability ..so now employers have got to shoulder this payment...


I always thought this was one of the things your NI covers, but not anymore...


As my accountant has said they have kept this one rather quiet... and it has 'sneaked' in under the radar..


for a small business like us,, this potentially could be hard.... as we will have to pay sick pay, PLUS potentially pay extra staff to cover the person while they are off...




The government are really trying to shift financial responsibility to everyone else... and away from them...

Butterfly_Brain

CTT DH just got notification from the council that his final salary pension scheme is changing and that he will only get a percentage when he retires :mad::mad::mad:

Butterfly_Brain

elantan wrote: »

Have been slowly working my way through the thread and gathering information ... Some one mentioned a while back a lodge Dutch oven, having just bought ourselves some stoves I thought this a great wee idea to add

Today I'm cooking our first meal on the stove
Thankyou who ever suggested it

I lurve mine but so far have not cooked on it, so I must try that.
Is yours a multifuel or does it just burn wood?
Mine is multifuel and coal burns hotter than wood so you need to bear that in mind.

happydays89

Hi,for anyone stocking up....Tesco had 6x1ltr of long life milk for £2.50 looked a good price,normally £4.80.should be all tesco stores.

paidinchickens

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

maybe not connected with SHTF, BUT.... it could be lol..


I employ a few staff, and my accountant told me a day or so ago, that from the 6th April, if any of my staff are off on sick, and they get Stat Sick Pay... I can not claim that back from HMRC..


so to me this is the government shifting responability ..so now employers have got to shoulder this payment...


I always thought this was one of the things your NI covers, but not anymore...



As my accountant has said they have kept this one rather quiet... and it has 'sneaked' in under the radar..


for a small business like us,, this potentially could be hard.... as we will have to pay sick pay, PLUS potentially pay extra staff to cover the person while they are off...




The government are really trying to shift financial responsibility to everyone else... and away from them...

Big businesses will come down harder on the people of sick and they are bad enough as it is. My daughter is off poorly at the minute and she has to ring in before 8 every morning and then they ring at all different times as if to catch her out. No good if you just want to catch some sleep to try and recover!!

I can't believe this isn't front page news

PiC x

elantan

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

I lurve mine but so far have not cooked on it, so I must try that.
Is yours a multifuel or does it just burn wood?
Mine is multifuel and coal burns hotter than wood so you need to bear that in mind.

It's a multifuel, will be buying some anthracite when we finally get the house finished ..3 weeks and counting so far ... I reckon another few weeks should see it finished then about a further 3-4 weeks for the clean up and we should be back to normal ... Whatever that is

elantan

Here's the upstairs fire ... Not been using it much due to trying to finish everything off ... It's the same as the downstairs one only smaller

Si_Clist

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

... coal burns hotter than wood so you need to bear that in mind.

Ah, but if you burn coal or other lumpy stuff like smokeless fuels, you don't get all that lovely wood ash to put on your garden!

BTW elantan, what have you finished the walls of your recess(es) with? The so-called builder that we got to replaster ours was supposed to have used some sort of trick plaster, but the skim still flaked off as soon as the stove had been on for a couple of days. And that was after the plaster had had all September and most of October to dry out!

GreyQueen

happydays89 wrote: »

Hi,for anyone stocking up....Tesco had 6x1ltr of long life milk for £2.50 looked a good price,normally £4.80.should be all tesco stores.

I hope that appears in my Te$co which is a Metro. I was horrified a couple of days ago the a single litre of UHT had jumped from 65p to 95p. Will check it out tomorrow, thanks for the heads-up.

jk0

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

CTT DH just got notification from the council that his final salary pension scheme is changing and that he will only get a percentage when he retires :mad::mad::mad:

!!!! a brick. I have one of them also. Can you give us any more details?