Retired Climber

Take my posts as the well intentioned ramblings of someone with an interest in the field. I'm not a lawyer.

You'd normally use the restraint of trade argument to counter a non-compete clause rather than this type of case. First thing I'd try would be to argue that the recouping of training costs took the employee below NMW in a given period.

You can write it into the contract if you like ( that the employee will need to repay training costs), but any half decent lawyer would take it to pieces in court.

Looks good to me.

I'd say crack willow with the tarp behind.

That's a proper car; a work of art.

The form is highly likely Elm.

You climb with skill and a calmness of movement. Nicely done. Looked a bit breezy at the top.

That company looks to be set up to be 'Spongebobbed'. IMO you won't be getting your money back. Confirmation statement being overdue is massive red flag. There are many other red flags. I'd not recommend anyone does business with that company. Their accounts have what appears to be their accountants address on; might be worth a call. All above presumes you did business with the UK Ltd of the same name, with same director name.

Thank you. That's just the wake up call I needed; I didn't realise there was a post counter. Assuming 20 minutes of browsing per post made, if I'd not joined this forum, and done something productive instead I'd have been about £160,000 better off. See ya

I'm not getting drawn into this again. For the sake of all of our sanity, let's agree to disagree.

Certainly no surprise that it's now logs.

I always thought that NPTC were professional qualifications, and Lantra were just the amateur version. No idea why, so feel free to ignore me. Last ticket I did was in 2003, so things may have changed.

Not this again. First things first; a company has to be LTD. If it's not LTD it's not a company. That's not to say you can't have a viable business as a sole trader, you just can't call it a company. I have 2 preferences. For small businesses, I prefer sole trader status. Do a VAT return every quarter, payments on account twice a year, and self assessment once a year and then do whatever you damn well like with the money. For a large business ( probably to be grown to IPO), go LTD right from the start. For everything in between, the answer is, it depends.

Haha, yep they would probably try to.