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Hi guys, here's one for those of you who know a bit about the minefield of employment laws etc
INTRODUCTION ...
Our neighbours son lets call him Bob as in Bob the Builder, works as a builder on a self employed basis for a company that does building, maintenance and so on, quite often since we've known him, the company has paid the wages late for various reasons, yet the owners son has just paid £80K to have his garden done up but couldn't pay the wages on time, they had a helicopter land in the fathers garden to take a few of them to golf for a day, yet couldn't pay the wages on time, how do I know this, they live in the next road to us and we see it all. Yes, yes we live in Essex
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For the last couple of years Bob has also been doing up our house at times when he's been either laid off or at weekends to get a bit of extra monies and has done an excellent job.
BIT OF BACKGROUND...
He lives with a girl in his parents and our eyes she's a no hoper, none of us will have her in our homes, she's on all kinds of benefits, hasn't ever done a days work and would never consider doing a days work, her (not his) son is in prison for god knows what, but Bob loves her and although they have a split every so often, (usually when he's laid off and has no money), they generally get on fine, he's paid for everything over the years and put up with more sh it than any of us good people should in our lives.
He sadly has been a bit daft, has avoided paying tax, NI and so on over the years, he's about 37 years old.
WHATS HAPPENED ...
Last Thursday whilst working for the company he was emptying a bathroom and threw a toilet into a skip, the toilet smashed and sliced into his wrist, so off to the hospital he goes, the upshot is that he's done all 5 tendons and had an operation on Saturday, he's been told that he won't work for at least 3 months.
THE QUESTION ...
Does anyone know if the company he's been working for will have to keep paying him or can they legally lay him off and wipe their hands of this, now my feelings are that if he's had an accident whilst working for them then surely they must be liable in some way. Would he be able to claim any benefits ? Would he be able to claim from the company's insurance ?
Any help gratefully accepted and appreciated with this, he's a lovely guy and we think the world of him and want to help him as much as possible, so much so that when he was laid off early this year and split from the monster, we actually sat him down, and told him that if he stayed away from her that we would help set him up in his own right, buy him a van, get him advertised, do his accounts and so on, but he was homeless (mum and dad won't have him back as he's been a bit of a boomerang), staying on friends sofa's and in the end love (or infatuation and the hormones I suspect) got the better of him and he returned to her, there is no way we would help him like that whilst he is with her.
INTRODUCTION ...
Our neighbours son lets call him Bob as in Bob the Builder, works as a builder on a self employed basis for a company that does building, maintenance and so on, quite often since we've known him, the company has paid the wages late for various reasons, yet the owners son has just paid £80K to have his garden done up but couldn't pay the wages on time, they had a helicopter land in the fathers garden to take a few of them to golf for a day, yet couldn't pay the wages on time, how do I know this, they live in the next road to us and we see it all. Yes, yes we live in Essex
msl:For the last couple of years Bob has also been doing up our house at times when he's been either laid off or at weekends to get a bit of extra monies and has done an excellent job.
BIT OF BACKGROUND...
He lives with a girl in his parents and our eyes she's a no hoper, none of us will have her in our homes, she's on all kinds of benefits, hasn't ever done a days work and would never consider doing a days work, her (not his) son is in prison for god knows what, but Bob loves her and although they have a split every so often, (usually when he's laid off and has no money), they generally get on fine, he's paid for everything over the years and put up with more sh it than any of us good people should in our lives.
He sadly has been a bit daft, has avoided paying tax, NI and so on over the years, he's about 37 years old.
WHATS HAPPENED ...
Last Thursday whilst working for the company he was emptying a bathroom and threw a toilet into a skip, the toilet smashed and sliced into his wrist, so off to the hospital he goes, the upshot is that he's done all 5 tendons and had an operation on Saturday, he's been told that he won't work for at least 3 months.
THE QUESTION ...
Does anyone know if the company he's been working for will have to keep paying him or can they legally lay him off and wipe their hands of this, now my feelings are that if he's had an accident whilst working for them then surely they must be liable in some way. Would he be able to claim any benefits ? Would he be able to claim from the company's insurance ?
Any help gratefully accepted and appreciated with this, he's a lovely guy and we think the world of him and want to help him as much as possible, so much so that when he was laid off early this year and split from the monster, we actually sat him down, and told him that if he stayed away from her that we would help set him up in his own right, buy him a van, get him advertised, do his accounts and so on, but he was homeless (mum and dad won't have him back as he's been a bit of a boomerang), staying on friends sofa's and in the end love (or infatuation and the hormones I suspect) got the better of him and he returned to her, there is no way we would help him like that whilst he is with her.
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