Michelle810
New Member
Hi everyone, thanks for this excellent forum I have learnt lots, but still need some advice if anyone can help please,
I make my own skincare products and have recently opened a shop. There's a room in the back that I'm thinking about renovating and offering beauty treatments in - just facials and back massage etc, all using my products. I have a good friend who's a therapist that has been using my products in her treatments for years and she's really up for being the therapist to carry out the treatments.
At first I thought she'd just carry on being self employed and we'd work out a rate she would take per treatment, maybe 60/40 as its my products, but having read these forums now I don't know if properly employing her would be more of an accurate way of doing things, based on what i'm envisaging...
I'd like to design the treatments with her, using the trained skills she already has coupled with the products that I make, i'll probably design a new face mask or similar to use in the facials etc. I guess the main way to take bookings would be me taking them as I work in the shop, and taking the payments as I have the till and card machine. I also am up for providing all of the products, the towels, the bed, and of course electric, wifi, herbal teas cups etc.
So does that all sound like I should employ my friend? She can probably only do 1 day a week and i'm not sure i'd have a full day of bookings for her every week so if I employ her would i have to pay her even if there are no bookings?
I was really up for doing it as a partnership - she can dictate her hours, keep all client data, do the consultations and then just split the treatment costs with me. Can we just agree to do this between us being both self employment people, or would HMRC see it as employment?
Thank you for any thoughts or advice!
I make my own skincare products and have recently opened a shop. There's a room in the back that I'm thinking about renovating and offering beauty treatments in - just facials and back massage etc, all using my products. I have a good friend who's a therapist that has been using my products in her treatments for years and she's really up for being the therapist to carry out the treatments.
At first I thought she'd just carry on being self employed and we'd work out a rate she would take per treatment, maybe 60/40 as its my products, but having read these forums now I don't know if properly employing her would be more of an accurate way of doing things, based on what i'm envisaging...
I'd like to design the treatments with her, using the trained skills she already has coupled with the products that I make, i'll probably design a new face mask or similar to use in the facials etc. I guess the main way to take bookings would be me taking them as I work in the shop, and taking the payments as I have the till and card machine. I also am up for providing all of the products, the towels, the bed, and of course electric, wifi, herbal teas cups etc.
So does that all sound like I should employ my friend? She can probably only do 1 day a week and i'm not sure i'd have a full day of bookings for her every week so if I employ her would i have to pay her even if there are no bookings?
I was really up for doing it as a partnership - she can dictate her hours, keep all client data, do the consultations and then just split the treatment costs with me. Can we just agree to do this between us being both self employment people, or would HMRC see it as employment?
Thank you for any thoughts or advice!