Wages for employee

Spud

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
YO62
What takes the biscuit is he going buying farms new cold stores kit ect and always pleading poverty.. yet there only two boys who work on farm and we do

Iv been here for around 5 years never had pay rise.. as when I asked for a over time rate he turned around and said no I’m not paying that. With having the house and a new baby I didn’t want the hassle of finding a new job and house ect so agreed to go self
Employed for 11 even tho I asked for 12 to cover my lack of holidays ect my accountant said I took pay cut then and been two years since then and still had nothing. He thinks me being self employed I can put stuff against tax but I can as such a it if fuel and the odd clothes and tools. Wow still had 5k tax bill to pay end of year. So long story short never had one. When the local contractor boys come in they on 11.50 on books or 15 self
Employed then tell them what I’m in they laugh
There's your rate then, why are you only charging £11 when the contractors are on £15? I find employed chaps tend to conveniently ignore things like holiday pay, sick pay etc. The total cost to a business is a lot more than they receive. Take total money received and divide by total hours actually worked to get your accurate take home pay.

Personally I'd prefer a chap of your calibre (running the show) on a salary rather than se or wage.
 

hoff135

Member
Location
scotland
There's a guy near me works on a livestock farm who is classed as self employed but he also gets a share of the profit. He runs the whole farm. Not sure hmrc are a fan of this kind of setup although he does have a small farm of his own with a couple hundred ewes.

The days of £10/hour are over tbh, especially doing hard work with livestock or working with machinery.

I don't do a lot of work for other farms anymore tbh. But if I was helping working at sheep for example, I'm £12/hr and if I'm using my own tools for anything I'm £14. I only do a few days here and there though.
 

thesilentone

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Cumbria
The inland revenue are enthusiastic about profit sharing scheme's and everyone in a responsible role should be on one. Tax deductible on the bottom end of the balance sheet :cool:

1) Decide what % profit you are going to pay into the scheme.
2) Add a share distribution
3) Allocate shares based on a calculation that includes ammount of basic pay (without overtime) and years employed.
4) Pay out twice a year, once in the summer, once in Dec.
 

honeyend

Member
There's your rate then, why are you only charging £11 when the contractors are on £15? I find employed chaps tend to conveniently ignore things like holiday pay, sick pay etc. The total cost to a business is a lot more than they receive. Take total money received and divide by total hours actually worked to get your accurate take home pay.

Personally I'd prefer a chap of your calibre (running the show) on a salary rather than se or wage.
You get roughly one hours holiday pay for every twelve hours worked, any overtime is included in pay, and your are paid the holiday pay rate for those hours.
If you work for an agency or are on a zero hours contract they can role up your holiday pay, but its usually listed as a separate amount on your pay slip.
I think the OP needs a new job, or making sure he is paid properly.
Tesco pay £9.30pr hour, plus extra for some shifts, pension scheme, and staff discount, with no arguments about holiday pay and entitlement.
 

Robt

Member
Location
Suffolk
This is local to me. It’s for picking asparagus. Just to put things into perspective
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7610 super q

Never Forgotten
Honorary Member
People can mock, but we stopped growing veg way back in 2007 because the minimum wage kept increasing whilst price for the product did not. I'm sure many have followed suit over the last decade.
We can congratulate ourselves for paying the highest wages, and having the best elf n safety for our staff, whilst importing all our food from countries that don't...........
 

Derrick Hughes

Member
Location
Ceredigion
People can mock, but we stopped growing veg way back in 2007 because the minimum wage kept increasing whilst price for the product did not. I'm sure many have followed suit over the last decade.
We can congratulate ourselves for paying the highest wages, and having the best elf n safety for our staff, whilst importing all our food from countries that don't...........
Dad grew Veg and picked them and mum sold at the gate along with eggs . Dont think so big
 

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Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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