part time job

squizz11

no earnings were ever declared to hmrc, niether of us have other jobs. she has just started filling in forms for hrmc but nothing while i was there, is it worth pursueing the holiday pay? We have never signed anything to say holidays won't be paid

lincroft1710

Squizz, could I clarify something please?

What is the basis for your £3.50 payment for walking the children? Was it ever stated to be a pro rata hourly rate or was it a figure just plucked out of the air?

getmore4less

squizz11 wrote: »

no earnings were ever declared to hmrc, niether of us have other jobs. she has just started filling in forms for hrmc but nothing while i was there, is it worth pursueing the holiday pay? We have never signed anything to say holidays won't be paid

You can't sign away holiday rights.

Just ask for the holiday pay.

getmore4less

lincroft1710 wrote: »

Squizz, could I clarify something please?

What is the basis for your £3.50 payment for walking the children? Was it ever stated to be a pro rata hourly rate or was it a figure just plucked out of the air?

Not sure where you are going with this?

Piece work pay would be a reasonable approach to this sort of job.

squizz11

We were just told it was 3.50 per day as the job never took more than half hour

lincroft1710

getmore4less wrote: »

Not sure where you are going with this?

Aha, all will be revealed. In fact squizz has just said something interesting - the job never took more than half an hour. So if she was being paid for half an hour, then shouldn't she have been paid £3.60, not £3.50, i.e. 50% of NMW.

Savvy_Sue

But if it only took 20 minutes on more days than it took half an hour, and they were always paid £3.50, I don't think that one would fly.