Reply to: Policy Quiz? WTF?

[BrowneIssue]

Steer well clear if you ask me.
As for the kettle and bogs question: a prickly pear indeed.
I always advise taking in your own thermos of hot water (company branded if possible) and teabags into the client site, and take along a plastic bag too. This way you can take a dump at the desk, and sling the plastic bag in the public bins outside the office.
Let those HMRC b******s catch you out on THAT one!

a) I believe it is an offence to put biological waste into the normal rubbish system. (A crappy, ill-thought-out regulation.)

b) Putting commercial waste into the domestic waste system can, I think, result in you being prosecuted by the council.

[pleomax]

It might be the first stage of ascertaining who could be ripe for redundancy.

I am employed by my own ltd co and have no plans to make myself redundant in the near future. The client Co can not make "ME" redundant!

Invoke the cancellation clause in the contract yes but redundantcy no!

[pleomax]

Your pimp has an onsite co-ordinator

Is this bad then?

So bad in fact that they seem to have lost my security clearance form and are not at all bothered when i asked about it.

Pleomax

[BolshieBastard]

Tell them that your HR department is insisting that the CEO, board and HR department all supply their NI number "for tracking purposes".

I've told them as I work through my own Ltd co, Im not supplying it. I'll give them a fake one if I have to.

[TheFaQQer]

Hmmm. My 'ethics' quiz has been cancelled.

Now they want my national insurance number for 'tracking' purposes. Not happy.

Tell them that your HR department is insisting that the CEO, board and HR department all supply their NI number "for tracking purposes".

[BolshieBastard]

Hmmm. My 'ethics' quiz has been cancelled.

Now they want my national insurance number for 'tracking' purposes. Not happy.

[TheFaQQer]

Would this have any affect on my IR35 status?

Use this to your advantage for IR35 - subcontract taking the test to someone else that's there

[backlight]

This was emailed from the pimps onsite co-ordinator.

Your pimp has an onsite co-ordinator

[Svalbaard]

It might be the first stage of ascertaining who could be ripe for redundancy.

[pleomax]

Bank of America by any chance? They emailed an 'ethics' quiz yesterday.

Not them

[Sysman]

I would just do it if i were you, it would apply to anyone working for the company, being permie, agency staff or contractor.

Agreed, just do it, though I cannot help wondering whether the ultimate aim of this is so that someone can produce some PowerPoint slides.

The next burning question of course is: "Do you get to see what the agency staff score?"

[expat]

Only if you bung a few quid to somebody who's good at ethics, to take care of it for you.

somebody who's "good at ethics"? That doesn't ring quite true somehow.

[thunderlizard]

Would this have any affect on my IR35 status?

Only if you bung a few quid to somebody who's good at ethics, to take care of it for you.

[BolshieBastard]

This was emailed from the pimps onsite co-ordinator.

Bank of America by any chance? They emailed an 'ethics' quiz yesterday.

[the_duderama]

If you're working for a banking or financial client you have to do these to comply with FSA regs. You cannot duck them else FSA deem you not to be compliant and the client can get rid. so, I'd do it but only when client co pushes for this.

If your not in financials, I'd try and steer clear unless there is a regulatory requirement.

I have to complete various regulatory stuff (telecoms) and the ocasional security quizz. My agent is obliged to audit each of their contractors to ensure complience, we normally send them certificate that is generated at the end of the quiz.

I would just do it if i were you, it would apply to anyone working for the company, being permie, agency staff or contractor.