Below minimum wage advert

richardgo

I have come across an advert offering below minimum wages. Is it legal? The advert details and link are below:

gumtree advert in /p/general-jobs/female-cleaner-required-asap/1095190638

Contact Ifzana
07583374503

Hi I'm looking for a local cleaner (female) who can clean to high standard to support me in my household chores. I live in a five bed house so it's a big job.
Duties will involve

* cleaning
* hoovering
* ironing
* oven cleaning

Willing to pay £5 an hour for 6 hours or more a week
Sunday Wednesday and Friday preferably but can be flexible.

Please leave me ur name number and experience and location and age.
Will get back to shortlisted applicants

cashbag

Appears to be in a private house so minimum wage legislation does not apply. And it also specifies a female, which in the workplace would be discrimination. At £5 per hour it might appeal to someone, but it's well below a decent wage, even with no tax to pay, and just encourages low wages per se.

brightonman123

contact number on ad searched, came up with a similar ad from 2 years ago..


"I am a working mum who needs a little hand at home...
Cooking/cleaning and taking kids to school each morning within walking
Distance....will need references and crb check plz call.."


no mention of wages, tho!

hcb42

OP you have quoted someone's mobile here, which ought to be edited out.

specialboy

cashbag wrote: »

Appears to be in a private house so minimum wage legislation does not apply. And it also specifies a female, which in the workplace would be discrimination. At £5 per hour it might appeal to someone, but it's well below a decent wage, even with no tax to pay, and just encourages low wages per se.

Why would it be ok to pay less than min wage in a private house?

trollopscarletwoman

richardgo wrote: »

I have come across an advert offering below minimum wages. Is it legal? The advert details and link are below:

gumtree advert in /p/general-jobs/female-cleaner-required-asap/1095190638

Contact Ifzana
07583374503

Hi I'm looking for a local cleaner (female) who can clean to high standard to support me in my household chores. I live in a five bed house so it's a big job.
Duties will involve

* cleaning
* hoovering
* ironing
* oven cleaning

Willing to pay £5 an hour for 6 hours or more a week
Sunday Wednesday and Friday preferably but can be flexible.

Please leave me ur name number and experience and location and age.
Will get back to shortlisted applicants

The mind boggles.

Has the workplace sunk this low.

For those in the know is someone who took up this 'position' potentially breaking tax laws anyway if no declaration of income is made.

I'm presuming no income of any sort in that tax year.

JustOnce

She's missing a trick. Surely she could get unemployed people on Workfare to do this for free.

trollopscarletwoman

blondebubbles wrote: »

Where does it say if private house that NMW does not apply? I can only see mention of this of they live in the household.

https://www.gov.uk/national-minimum-wage/who-gets-the-minimum-wage

Far be it from me but the obvious category is self employed.

Mind you-whatever that might be.

CKhalvashi

specialboy wrote: »

Why would it be ok to pay less than min wage in a private house?

Only for live-in.

once_bitten_twice_shy

I run a local jobs page on Facebook which posts the links to local vacancies. There are loads that come up on gumtree, personally I think this is a little different.

At the end of the day it's really up to the candidate what they would be willing to work for, I wouldn't apply but in the same vain there are lots of people looking for one off jobs to be done at nothing like the minimum wage and plenty of applicants. Putting up an aerial, fixing a washing machine etc.

trollopscarletwoman

once_bitten_twice_shy wrote: »

I run a local jobs page on Facebook which posts the links to local vacancies. There are loads that come up on gumtree, personally I think this is a little different.

At the end of the day it's really up to the candidate what they would be willing to work for, I wouldn't apply but in the same vain there are lots of people looking for one off jobs to be done at nothing like the minimum wage and plenty of applicants. Putting up an aerial, fixing a washing machine etc.

I'm not normally one to worry about such things but surely some law must being broken here.