Hi,
I'm a minority director of a small business, with 20% profit sharing.
M.D. runs a number of businesses, and is the 80% owner of this business.
In essence, I am the operations manager of the business, i.e. meet clients, proposals, quotations, sales, managing employees, managing commissionings, p.m., meeting deadlines etc.
I currently work approx 50+ hrs per week, on a fixed salary (no overtime), have a car allowance, no vhi, no pension.
All understood, all agreed.
However, recently M.D. informed me I should have phone on call at all times, i.e. late at night, and all weekends, because "you're self-employed, and self-employed people have to be able to respond to their client 24/7"
I don't agree with this view, as I believe if I was self-employed, I own 100%
Opinions?