Night allowance

[evansabove]

I have an employee who occasionally sleeps over in my small hotel when we have guests. She is insisting on a rate of £3/hour - is this right?

For example, Last week we had just one guest in at a rate of £55. After deductions of VAT, commission to late rooms, laundry, chambermaid, toiletries etc. etc & her allowance of £18 (2am-8am) plus a further £5.80 to put a tray together for the guest & wait for him to check out we ended up with the grand sum of £3.32!!!

This surely can't be right! Can I just give a flat rate of say £10 which would then make things easier on us financially. To be frank, if she is right we may as well close!!!

[ummmm]

Do it yourself.

[redman41]

Are you running a Seasonal Hotel ? With only one Guest in attendance you are making a loss, and unless you can attract more Visitors on a Daily/Weekly basis, you would be better off closing the Hotel until Easter. You are out of pocket otherwise !

[evansabove]

Thanks for the advice. It is fair to say that it is rare that we only had 1 guest in on that night but I'd like to make it clear that she & her boyfriend do sleep over - she is not awake or doing any other duties apart from being paid to sleep!!!

[sara3]

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