Slightly random one, but hey ho. My current contract and department is about to move companies under the TUPE law(s). We were told it would be a direct move to Onstream, who are a National Grid company and as such there is a future in the job. Turns out this is a load of old tosh. We're actually being moved to some low budget second rate bunch if idiots who have no idea how the job works, or how to go about it. This in itself is no problem. What is, however, is that the bosses and auditors ARE going straight to Onstream. Now the bit that affects me. I'm one of 4 or 5 3 phase trained meter fixers in the company and wish to maintain the elevated pay and recognition that goes with this. Under the new lot, ALL the meter fixers are seen as being nothing more than foot soldiers and as such are expendable and not worth any more than they can get away with. This I do not want. So, does anyone know of any jobs going for a single and 3 phase leecy meter fixer with 2 years experience? I'm trying to stay with the parent company, EOn, but I don't want to put all my eggs in one basket.
Cheers for any help you can give!
PS, done the usual searches, but I can only find jobs in Scotland so far.

[Edited on 29/4/08 by DIY Si]

I think we're looking for Leccy's but it's beautiful Wales, shifts and the food industry so I'd say keep looking.

That's the problem though, I'm not a sparky. Meter fixing is a similar, but different job.

well if you could put up with the weather Aberdeen is still screaming for people, so many jobs available right now.

Under TUPE it makes no difference what they think of you they have to keep you on the same employment terms, so it doesn't really matter.

There are very few instances when they can change your terms, which my other half is currently going through.

From experience they will keep all employment terms and conditions the same and only if they really are t*ssers will they try to exploit small loop holes that allow them to change these. In this instance, join a Union and enjoy watching the legal wragglings that ensue!

Under TUPE, the existing terms and conditions of your contract are protected. They cannot make any changes without negotiation.

Phil

Ditto.

I work in heating contracting and we're always winning/loosing contracts with TUPE implications (we keep the good engineers and TUPE the bad ones like everyone else).

We can't change pay and working conditions without agreement so if I needed a TUPE engineer to increase their hours from 40 to our companies 45 hour week, I would have to get them to agree to it and pay them a pro-rata increase of 5hr/wk.

Holidays, pensions, etc. are covered too.

Just a thought but might be worth deleting name of your company(ies) from here. People have been binned by their employers for making what are deemed derogatory comments on the net, and if someone were that way inclined they may decide getting rid of you that way is easier (no redundancy etc).

Sounds extreme but see here I believe there was one with the post office (or royalmail) aswell.

Well, I'm back from the big first meeting and they are the bunch of absolute monkeys I was told they would be! Oh, well, off to try and persuade someone to let me do an internal transfer before the dreaded day arrives.
I know my T&C's can't change, but there a quite a few gentleman's agreements with the current employer that the new lot don't have to keep. And they have no idea about how my job works, what I actually do, or how I do it! Not a lot I want to work for.

get your job discription updated then to include all of the "gentlemens agreements" you are intitled to a proper job discription.