Hi everyone/ anyone who can help
I’m currently a sole trader working/ sub contracting to someone in Auckland. I am in the trades.
I say sub contracting but I don’t do any work for anybody else and only work for the same person, so technically by some standards in NZ I am an employee.
My current boss is having financial trouble at the moment and has not been paying me on time and sometimes it will be weeks before I get paid (3-4 weeks)
I’m just wondering what if any action I can take to do something about this?
I have a young family and can’t afford to just leave in the current times we are living in. I have bills and mouths to feed.
Everybody gets paid fortnightly but lately he has just been making random excuses and telling me he can’t pay me because of X Y Z reason.
I think in NZ there is a grey area between sole trader/ employee and as sole traders if we wear the uniform, only work for the one company and work a certain percentage of our time for the same company every week we are basically employees.
I’m kind of just trying to find a way to get my boss to pay me on time like everyone else so I can afford to live.
Any advise would be helpful.
Thanks
I’m currently a sole trader working/ sub contracting to someone in Auckland. I am in the trades.
I say sub contracting but I don’t do any work for anybody else and only work for the same person, so technically by some standards in NZ I am an employee.
My current boss is having financial trouble at the moment and has not been paying me on time and sometimes it will be weeks before I get paid (3-4 weeks)
I’m just wondering what if any action I can take to do something about this?
I have a young family and can’t afford to just leave in the current times we are living in. I have bills and mouths to feed.
Everybody gets paid fortnightly but lately he has just been making random excuses and telling me he can’t pay me because of X Y Z reason.
I think in NZ there is a grey area between sole trader/ employee and as sole traders if we wear the uniform, only work for the one company and work a certain percentage of our time for the same company every week we are basically employees.
I’m kind of just trying to find a way to get my boss to pay me on time like everyone else so I can afford to live.
Any advise would be helpful.
Thanks