I'm sorry to bother you all with one of my questions, but someone out there may be able to help.
For those that don't know: I am a lawyer. Most of my clients are small to medium tech. companies of a kind that I am sure most of you are familiar. My clients tend to be open to unusual or interesting ways of working. Many have employees (rather than contractors - assume I know what to do about contractors) who work "from home" - really from a place of their choice. This may be because the client has no premises and does everything virtually or it may happen because the employee in question wants that flexibility and the employer is fine with it. The tech. world tends to be happy with virtual working. Stand ups with several people holding laptops for workers not physically present attending virtually via skype etc are quite common. In some cases the "from home" is outside the UK. In principle it could be anywhere in the world, but I am particularly interested in the EU. Information about everywhere else is welcome though. Now the problem is that legal systems have an irritating habit of being geographically limited. So while I am entirely familiar with GB employment law and also with the ways in which systems of employment law are co-ordinated within the EU, I really don't know enough and can't really afford to know all about the laws of every other EU member state. In the case of contractors many use umbrella companies to manage the process for them. What I am interested in is services for employers. Some googling reveals a lot of companies that claim to offer this kind of service, but what would be really extremely valuable is if any of you either had personal experience (either way around) of this or knew someone who did and would be happy to chat about it. For example if any of you employ someone in (say) Spain from the UK and use a company to manage the process and you like them, please let me know. As far as I can tell the main problem is going to be payroll oriented - what deductions have to be made for social security provisions (like NI) and so on, but there may be other local regulatory requirements that we need to know about. All ideas welcome. -- Francis Davey _______________________________________________ developers-public mailing list [email protected] https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public Unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/options/developers-public/archive%40mail-archive.com
