I've Been Offered a Perm role but not sure if I should take it

[ukmercenary]

Hello

I have been offered a perm role but there are a few things putting me off it.
They have not mentioned if it includes a pension.
Holiday entitlement is only 20 days the norm is 25
They expect me to be travelling alot using my own car. They said I can claim mileage but this does not include insurance or the wear and tear on my car (and i cant be arsed to record all my mileage) should I be asking for a car allowance instead?

I have another interview today for a 6 month contract for a windows 7 roll out working for a large petrol company so im not in any rush and I have another interview lined up next week.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks
Paul

[eek]

Are you desperate for cash or do you have a warchest of some form.

You don't seem to want the job so don't take it.

[pmeswani]

Hello

I have been offered a perm role but there are a few things putting me off it.
They have not mentioned if it includes a pension.
Holiday entitlement is only 20 days the norm is 25
They expect me to be travelling alot using my own car. They said I can claim mileage but this does not include insurance or the wear and tear on my car (and i cant be arsed to record all my mileage) should I be asking for a car allowance instead?

I have another interview today for a 6 month contract for a windows 7 roll out working for a large petrol company so im not in any rush and I have another interview lined up next week.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks
Paul

To be honest, I think you know the answer to your question, but you are looking for opinions from others, which I don't think will make much difference to what you will do. At the end of the day, if you don't want to take the perm role, don't take it. But if you want to swollow some pride... well, you know the answer to that.

Regarding the pension scheme. Without looking at the exact details, any company that has at least 5 employees (may be less or more now, been a while since I researched this) must give their employees access to a pension. I can't remember what the number of staff required in order for a company to contribute to their employees pension, but it does also depend on the company's profits during the previous financial year, but typically the contributions is normally double the employees maximum contributions (up to I think 6% in some instances).

Regarding petrol costs, I am going to assume that it will be 45p/25p rule. This is designed to cover petrol costs as well as wear and tear. You may want to see what provisions the employer has if you have an accident in your car whilst carrying out work activities.

[ukmercenary]

Thanks 18pmeswani I have accepted there offer although not over whelmed with joy with only having 20 days leave bit like a prison sentence but I could always leave if i dont like it. Better to have something that nothing I suppose lol yeah im an gumpy git