OP, I used the gov's statutory redundancy calculator and your payout is £5,200 based on the info you left in this thread. Confirm for yourself here if you haven't already: https://www.gov.uk/calculate-your-redundancy-pay
Good luck !
Good luck !
even a window cleaner makes more than £10 an hour.
all you would need is a ladder, sponge/rag, a couple of buckets with 1 filled with fairy and a squigee.
Floleven a window cleaner makes more than £10 an hour.
all you would need is a ladder, sponge/rag, a couple of buckets with 1 filled with fairy and a squigee.
And a van, insurance, liability insurance etc. It's not as straight forward as you suggest.
Most window cleaner I see use a pole based water brushing system and bring their own filtered water too (many hundreds of litres / kilos).what do you need a van for?
Most window cleaner I see use a pole based water brushing system and bring their own filtered water too (many hundreds of litres / kilos).
And unless they're based in a city, they're likely to have to travel many miles between households and businesses.
The old geezer on a bike with a ladder they are not anymore!
the ones i see in villages go door to door on foot. fill their bucket using peoples outdoor taps when they get dirty. could be as many as 2500 houses in a large estate. £10 per house with a 50% take up is £12.5K a month. if he does the full estate in a month then goes back to the start again.
no need to travel 10 miles between jobs. residential homes in affluent areas is where it's at.
the ones i see in villages go door to door on foot. fill their bucket using peoples outdoor taps when they get dirty. could be as many as 2500 houses in a large estate. £10 per house with a 50% take up is £12.5K a month. if he does the full estate in a month then goes back to the start again.
no need to travel 10 miles between jobs. residential homes in affluent areas is where it's at.
The boss is thinking about his own interests not yours. There is no good will gesture. Do not resign.
OP, I used the gov's statutory redundancy calculator and your payout is £5,200 based on the info you left in this thread. Confirm for yourself here if you haven't already: https://www.gov.uk/calculate-your-redundancy-pay
Good luck !
This! Sounds like your old boss is doing you over.
If the person who was buying the business decides they no longer wish to take over, and only purchase the assets instead, then all the original staff are still employed by the existing owner. Whether he has any equipment or customers/contracts to work on is irrelevant, your employment with him doesn't just cease to exist because he's sold all of the equipment needed to run the place. In this case he would have to make you redundant as he can no longer facilitate a running business.
He was probably hoping the new guy was going to take on all the staff, but the new owner has probably decided the costs were too high.
See if you can get some free time with a solicitor who can write a letter to your current boss to point our that you're still employed by him, and that he would need to go through the redundancy process in order for your contract to be terminated.
I don't think you've mentioned yet, but what are the other staff doing? I assume it wasn't only you working there?