BG want engineers to hand back their private corgi Reg's

[corgiman]

There not saying you have to give your corgi back but if you don't they will sack you as they belive holding your own corgi means you are working in competition, I would get rid of it.

Or they could go it alone


Go On lads grow a pair and stop fannying about

 

[Agile]

There not saying you have to give your corgi back but if you don't they will sack you as they belive holding your own corgi means you are working in competition, I would get rid of it.

I dont think that would be a sackable offence just to hold your own CORGI registration.

The ITs I have been on would expect to see some evidence that the employee was also doing work in competition.

To take the legal argument to the extreme ( as a method of testing it ) they could say that if you had your own set of gas tools they could sack you without any evidence of work being done.

To the other extreme if a BG man did private work using Company tools then it would be clearly a strong sackable offence like going to private jobs in the BG van.

I know of someone who did his private installations in his Iguana van. I did mention it to the Iguana boss but he did not press me for the identity of his employee. The problem was he had fitted the boiler dangerously in two gas safety respects!

Tony

 

[Dan Robinson]

Thats right CM, f*ck 'em.

Cheeky robbing barstewards anyway.

 

[corgiman]

There not saying you have to give your corgi back but if you don't they will sack you as they belive holding your own corgi means you are working in competition, I would get rid of it.

I dont think that would be a sackable offence just to hold your own CORGI registration.


Tony

Oh yes it does


and they will

 

[corgiman]

Thats right CM, f*ck 'em.

Cheeky robbing barstewards anyway.

Here here

and very eloquantly put if I may say so Dan

 

[Dan Robinson]

I do love BG, I get so much work from their cock ups - I just wish the customers were in better moods once i arrived!

 

[corgiman]

True

I remember the days when BG Men were to best of the best and you could respect them

Huge Bearded Men built like barges and pipe smokers to a man

Nowadays They are a load of whingy Lady boys

"I want to do privates at the weekend but they wont let me use their gear the bastards"

"ooohhh self employment No way then I might have to take some responsibilty rather than say "its the pcb" and slope it to someone else and be home in time for countdown"

 

[Agile]

I dont think that would be a sackable offence just to hold your own CORGI registration.


Tony

Oh yes it does


and they will

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If BG did that then I strongly suspect that a determined employee perhaps with the backing of his union would be able to claim unfair dismissal.

BG would have to prove that the employee was doing private work. Merely holding a CORGi registration is no proof of doing work.

Having a Driving Licence does not mean that you are actually driving!!!

Tony

 

[corgiman]

why would there be a case to answer if the employment contract states that independant CORGI reg would be considered a conflict of interest and as such would be treated as gross misconduct

 

[Agile]

I am sure the employment Contract has many clauses to prevent employees doing gas work in their spare time.

It would be surprising if it actually specifically stated that they cannot hold a CORGi registration or for that matter or own an FGA for example.

Does anyone have the exact wording of the relevant part of the BG employment Contract to quote?

Just because I have a box of matches does not mean that I am an arsonist!

Tony

 

[corgiman]

Just because I have a box of matches does not mean that I am an arsonist!

Tony

Well to be fair You were aquited due to lack of evidence

 

[Agile]

Sorry I said that wrongly! It should have been:-

"Just because I have a box of matches does not prove that I am an arsonist."

Similarly:-

"Just because someone has a CORGi registration it does not prove that he is doing any gas work".

Tony

 

[corgiman]

As you say it would be good if someone could post any DIRECT mentions of CORGI in a BG contract

 

[Softus]

Just because I have a box of matches does not mean that I am an arsonist!

Do you have half a box of matches?

 

[nickso]

I am sure the employment Contract has many clauses to prevent employees doing gas work in their spare time.

It would be surprising if it actually specifically stated that they cannot hold a CORGi registration or for that matter or own an FGA for example.

Does anyone have the exact wording of the relevant part of the BG employment Contract to quote?

Tony

ok i found out about this.

without possibly breaking the data act the contract specifically says (in other words).

employees shall not give potential business to a competitor.

employees shall not work in competition to BG.

fairly ambigious but also pretty straightforward.

there is nothing in the current contract that refers to a seperate CORGI registration