POGS, do you only read the things you disagree with?
I have run two businesses and sold them on.
You do not make people redundant when you sell on a business. The employees are taken over by the next employer, who signs an agreement to say s/he will do so.
My last business I sold because my husband was ill. I owed just as much when I sold it as when I started. When I say "I" it's because my husband was ill when we took over the business, so his names were not allowed to be on the deeds by the bank. For the first time in our marriage, I owned the house we lived in, and if the business went bust, we would have been homeless.
So less of the snide socialist comments.
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I own a very successful domestic cleaning business and have a problem finding new staff. At present I have one staff member off on SMP ( seriously out of pocket as still waiting for HMRC to re-reimburse me) and another one off on SSP having had planned surgery( again out of pocket). I am trying to employ temp staff to cover the gaps, need a couple of people to work 16-18 hours a week and there is a distinct possibility of job becoming permanent. I pay quite well (£6.64 per hour plus generous car expenses) and we are a nice company with lovely clients. No weekends, no bank holidays, no evenings, no horrid early starts. When I offer people an interview, they either don't turn up 
or talk as if they are the ones doing me a favour! I try to be as flexible as possible, and my current staff have all been with me for ages and are lovely, but I cant keep asking them to do extra hours all the time. I don't use agency staff as cant afford to pay their rates, and besides which my very expensive public liability insurance precludes the use of casual or agency staff. I have listed the job with the job centre on Universal Jobmatch and on the Indeed job search site. Also got a company who work for Job Centre, but they keep ringing me with unsuitable candidates.......she is very nice, but can only work 9-1, or really great but cant work in a house where there are cats ( not much good as a cleaner then).....sorry to rant, and I truly am not an awful UKIP Daily Mail type ranting about benefit scroungers, in fact I read The Guardian, but just finding it so frustrating!!!! I just want to give someone a job for heaven's sake
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