5 employees

[PurpleMoonlight]

Including me, I now have 5 employees in the Ltd. I think this means some additional legislative burdens kick in.

I have a workplace pension and employers liability insurance. What else to I need to put in place please?

I think I now need to get all electrical equipment tested.

[jammy-git]

You need to have a written HSE plan: http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/indg449.pdf

[PurpleMoonlight]

That's very useful, ta.

[Eric Mc]

PurpleMoonlight said:

I think I now need to get all electrical equipment tested.

That's interesting. You can electrocute an employee if you only employ four but not if you have five ore more. I'll bear that in mind.

[PurpleMoonlight]

Eric Mc said:

That's interesting. You can electrocute an employee if you only employ four but not if you have five ore more. I'll bear that in mind.

Well that's true, but it's more the legal requirements I'm looking for at the moment.

[Eric Mc]

It certainly seems to indicate that an employer with more than four employees is more at fault if one of the employees is electrocuted compared to an employer with four or fewer.

[Joscal]

A full time HR specialist to deal with all their problems.

[Mr Overheads]

I was at 5 at one point including me as Director (back at 3 at the moment so not an issue) but, I couldnt' get a straight answer as to whether a Director counts as an employee for the purposes of the 5 employee legislation.

[raw]

Think it's as many as are on PAYE? Could be wrong...

[Snowdrop_]

Sent you a message.

[edc]

Joscal said:

A full time HR specialist to deal with all their problems.

That's the wrong way to look at it. The HR function should support the manager but not be there as a pseudo manager so they can throw over all the problems they don't want to manage. You don't need a full time HR person for so few people.

[dartissimus]

H & S Policy, Fire risk assessment, Fire alarm testing, Fixed electrical equipment inspection (every 5 years), Risk assessments for just about anything. Records of training, Accident book, first aid kit, first aiders, the list is endless

Unfortunately all needs to documented.

It's the insurance companies.

Arses need to be covered.

The bigger the organisation, the bigger the arse.