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stabilo · 01-04-2013, 18:25

I joined Kelly's a few weeks ago, Got trained near Coventry by a company called PQMS. Lots of building work going on. You get put up in a hotel and share a room with a stranger! I have to travel 60 odd miles to get to the first job. I thought it was going to be local. You are not fully insured on fault accidents to your van. First £1000 is paid by you. You can be sued by the general public/local authority so get public liability insurance. You are classified as self employed but pay tax upfront to be claimed back via a tax return. The umbrella company take £12 a week for the privilege of paying you. You are expected to do 5 jobs a day at £25 per completion. OK if they were pre-wired which hasn't been the case for the most this week. You wait a long time on the phone for a tone or another e side. Your jobs get audited by BT and if a fault (untidy wiring, green cabinet not cleaned out, no 'I was here' label on pole etc) is found in your work you loose the £25.

if you leave within a year you get your pay docked by £500. There is no holiday pay as you are self employed. Apart from that your van is outside your house and you use a fuel card but careful not to put the super diesel in as you will pay for it yourself.

01-04-2013, 18:25	#4
stabilo Inactive Join Date: Apr 2013 Posts: 5	Re: Kelly's BT Openreach Engineers I joined Kelly's a few weeks ago, Got trained near Coventry by a company called PQMS. Lots of building work going on. You get put up in a hotel and share a room with a stranger! I have to travel 60 odd miles to get to the first job. I thought it was going to be local. You are not fully insured on fault accidents to your van. First £1000 is paid by you. You can be sued by the general public/local authority so get public liability insurance. You are classified as self employed but pay tax upfront to be claimed back via a tax return. The umbrella company take £12 a week for the privilege of paying you. You are expected to do 5 jobs a day at £25 per completion. OK if they were pre-wired which hasn't been the case for the most this week. You wait a long time on the phone for a tone or another e side. Your jobs get audited by BT and if a fault (untidy wiring, green cabinet not cleaned out, no 'I was here' label on pole etc) is found in your work you loose the £25. if you leave within a year you get your pay docked by £500. There is no holiday pay as you are self employed. Apart from that your van is outside your house and you use a fuel card but careful not to put the super diesel in as you will pay for it yourself.