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stevie_sausage
hello one and all,
new to the site and I am looking for some hel[p and advice, but first let me start with a long winded story. recently my company that i work for lost the long term contract which I was working on, and under the Tupe laws i was due to go over to the new company. However one of the things that they stipulate is that you have to have cscs to work there. Upon application and receiving my card it has come back as Electrical labourer and not electrician. I enquired about the reaason why and they said that it was because i had not completed my N.V.Q level 3. when I served my time I undertook city and guilds 2360 parts 1 and 2 and their was no mention of nvq during my training. I have worked as an electrician including apprenticeship for over 16 years have tons of experience that you wont get in a classroom and consider myself a good and safe spark and have always been classed and paid as fully qualified. Now this new company are saying that I cannot work unsupervised etc etc because my card says electrical labourer i also have 17th edition and inspection and testing. surely their must be another route than taking upto twelve months off to complete nvq level 3 to be classed as qualified under the cscs scheme. any advice would be extremely appreciated as basically in two weeks i'm out of a job.....:icon9: P.S I find it ironic that these companies are using the JIB grading scheme like its the bible yet none seem to want to pay J.I.B rates or benefits.
new to the site and I am looking for some hel[p and advice, but first let me start with a long winded story. recently my company that i work for lost the long term contract which I was working on, and under the Tupe laws i was due to go over to the new company. However one of the things that they stipulate is that you have to have cscs to work there. Upon application and receiving my card it has come back as Electrical labourer and not electrician. I enquired about the reaason why and they said that it was because i had not completed my N.V.Q level 3. when I served my time I undertook city and guilds 2360 parts 1 and 2 and their was no mention of nvq during my training. I have worked as an electrician including apprenticeship for over 16 years have tons of experience that you wont get in a classroom and consider myself a good and safe spark and have always been classed and paid as fully qualified. Now this new company are saying that I cannot work unsupervised etc etc because my card says electrical labourer i also have 17th edition and inspection and testing. surely their must be another route than taking upto twelve months off to complete nvq level 3 to be classed as qualified under the cscs scheme. any advice would be extremely appreciated as basically in two weeks i'm out of a job.....:icon9: P.S I find it ironic that these companies are using the JIB grading scheme like its the bible yet none seem to want to pay J.I.B rates or benefits.