Sacked

Sarah69

My son has been sacked (by text) from his job as a self employed window cleaner. He will be going into our local city to register with employment agencies tomorrow in the hopes of finding a job immediately. If he is not sucessful will he be able to claim JSA?

nannytone_2

it depends why he was sacked.

how can he be sacked if he's self employed anyway?

Sarah69

He was off sick.

He works for a window cleaning company but they are all self employed within that company.

McKneff

Tell hm to start his own window cleaning company and pinch all the customers.


He cannot be sacked if he wasn't employed. He wll have been told his services are not longer required.

Torry_Quine

It still doesn't answer the question? Does he only work for this one company for instance? Is he registered self-employed and has he paid his self-employed NI contributions or does the employer pay?

As said though being sacked could well mean he is sanctioned from the DWP for up to six months. What kind of JSA would depend on whether he has sufficient contributions.

If he was employed then how long had he worked there as before two years you can be sacked for any non-discriminatory reason.

Sarah69

He only works for 1 company. Yes he was registered as self employed. I have no idea about NI contributions.

Icequeen99

Sarah69 wrote: »

He only works for 1 company. Yes he was registered as self employed. I have no idea about NI contributions.

It sounds very much like the company have been doing wrong - sounds like he should have been employed by them.

IQ

Marktheshark

McKneff wrote: »

Tell hm to start his own window cleaning company and pinch all the customers.


He cannot be sacked if he wasn't employed. He wll have been told his services are not longer required.

Bloody good advice !
set of ladders, buckets and shammys and card all the houses local and set up on his own.
What he earns he keeps.

Housing_Benefit_Officer

Start as self employed. He knows the job, he knows how to clean windows, he should know the prices to charge, he knows what equipment he needs. A small outlay on equipment and some leaflets and he could be quids in.

This forum here should answer any questions he has and help with publicity, marketing etc...

http://windowcleaningforums.co.uk/

Laurensalive

I would say as he is already registered as self employed he should start up his own round. Basically this is the employers way of getting your son to put on his on self employed NI on.

Sarah69

Yes he could be, but has no money to pay out for equipment and doesn't drive.

He has no idea about NI, if he is supposed to pay or if his boss paid it. His boss hooked him up with a accountant to sort out tax and is waiting for self assessment or whatever it is.

Still doesn't answer whether he can claim JSA or not.