HELP Childcare - Solicitor Query

[questions]

Hi all,

my girlfriend is a childcare worker for a private family in their private home. She's doesn't get paid by the family but by a solicitors company the couple work for. Is this legal? Also she does not have a contract, should she have one from the solicitors company or the family?

 

[Complainer]

Does she get a payslip and (if she has been there since last year) a P60 at year end? Are they deducting tax and PRSI? Every employee is entitled to a contract, but there may be a question as to whether she is actually an employee, or a contractor.

Given that the solicitor is doing the paying, one would hope that they are keeping things legal.

 

[questions]

At the beginning she got no paysilps just paid into her account, now she gets paid by the company and pays prsi and tax....