Hiring "kids" to do landscaping

Diagro

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Yo,

What's the legality issues of hiring some teenagers to do some basic landscaping work?

Need it doing, seen some teens offering a cheap daily rate to do it.
(Ofc I'd supervise as I've done these jobs before).

What would you pay them? £9hr? I was thinking a tenner an hour.

I've no interest in getting a landscaping company in to do it. It's VERY basic work which a few have quoted £400 a day for. No chance my brain would allow that.
I however have booked them in for bigger things like fencing and ground level raising.
 
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[FnG]magnolia said:
I don't disagree but not for your reason.

Let me know how those cheap teenagers work out for you (do not do this because laws and ethics and aren't you working in a school so, my word).
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Left teaching a year ago.
Has no bareing on this at all.

They are to be digging holes and filling with hard core for some slabs. I'm sure they'll be fine.
 
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[FnG]magnolia said:
Well ok.

Instead of paying less than LW or MW or whatever the UK has right now (Oh Brexit, so maybe not), why don't you pay someone to do a great job instead of stiffing youths (also, do not do this because ew).
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He’s offering more than minimum wage for teenagers: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/minimum-wage-rates-for-2023

Sounds a fair rate but depends what the work is? Take it that it’s just some digging / levelling or something like that?
 
Stu999 said:
He’s offering more than minimum wage for teenagers: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/minimum-wage-rates-for-2023

Sounds a fair rate but depends what the work is? Take it that it’s just some digging / levelling or something like that?
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Yea pretty much.
Dig up, level, lay hardcore, compact.
May even get them to lay the slabs who knows.

In my eyes, these kids get paid more than MW, feel like they did a good job and I'm happy because I've saved a few Bob.
Win win imo
 
montymint said:
If they were to injure themselves or damage anything, do you have insurance to cover this?

A landscaping firm would.
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Man who no longer works in teaching asks about how best to pay terrible wages to children to do rudimentary and phyical works by way of a computer forum.

There's no insurance, let's be realistic about this so we don't have to feign surprise when we read it in the newspaper.
 
When I was 15/16 I 'worked' with a builder day rates over holidays and spare time, I was getting £40-60 a day and I felt loaded, this was back in 2004/5. I used to ride my bike or my dad would drop me off if it was too far away, did all sorts of work and it was great to be honest. Any thoughts of insurance etc never arose, I guess simpler times..
 
Lack of liability insurance and specious claims would be my concern these days, otherwise I'd have `em down the mines and up the chimneys in a jiffy after they'd finished the digging :)
 
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