PRSI question

[MrsOB]

Hi,

I've been employed by a company for 5 years now. They pay me for the work that's carried on on their premises and outside of their premises. The only thing is that for the work that I do outside of their premises they issue a cheque that's not processed through their paye/prsi system. What they do is they invoice the company I do the work for (only a few hours here and there) the company pay them and then my employer pays me. they said i should set up as a sole trader for these hours that are carried outside of their premises. can they do that? can they actually subcontract their own employees? I am asking this because i'm worried my stamps will be affected by that
Many thanks

 

[becky]

Many years ago when I was in payroll (HSE) we use to consider a certain type of employee as self employed (can't remember the grade now) so we paid PRSI S or something.

Theses seld employed people didn't normally work on HSE premises - it was usually clients home.

One 'employee' appealed this to PRSI SCOPE division and the HSE lost.

The main reasons were;

the HSE allocated the work and the number of sessions.

The 'sub- contractor' could not for example decide a client needed 5 or 6 sessions.

The contractor had no say in the price he charged.

Sorry now the details are hazy but the reasons I have this memory is I wasn't long in the section and it was the first time I saw my boss kicking the filing cabinets afterwards with rage (not the last though).

 

[MrsOB]

Many thanks for that Becky, it makes perfect sense. I'll check again with payroll see what they have to say.