[Paul71]

Hi,

We are looking for advice with regards to employing staff.

We are a small commercial cleaning partnership, setup by my partner and myself just over two years ago. We have ticked over with just enough work to make ends meet but this year seems to be hectic for us. We have just take on a very large nursery contract with four very large sites. The nursery are aware that currently it is just the two of us that carry out the cleans but they want us to grow by taking on staff and doing more units. Eventually to be cleaning all of their nurseries. As well as this we also have numerous other contracts with offices, estate agents etc and it's getting to a point where we are working 16 hours a day to keep up. We are at that point where we are questioning do we need staff and can we afford staff?

As we have never employed we are looking for advice on how to go about employing. What we need to do etc? We would be looking to employ someone part time at first for 10 to 20 hours a week. As we get more units we would then look at employing more staff and/or increase the hours of the current staff.

Any advice with where to start with employing would be much appreciated.