Blacklist.

[roughcaster]

Should construction firms etc have a blacklist of potential troublemakers etc? My opinion,,,,, yes,,,,, why shouldn't they..... Once these people get a job with a company, they could cause all kinds of strife and problems....If a person has a known track record for causing trouble, stealing, shoddy workmanship, bad timekeeping, etc, etc, what is wrong with that person being identified to potential employers, if they request it?

Roughcaster.

 

[oldandrew]

Problem is with that sort of list there is no way of knowing whether what was on it was true. A bit tough if you get branded a trouble maker just because someone does not like you, or you stick up for yourself.

 

[Jezclayton]

The problem with this list as I understand it is that the company holding it wasn't registered with the Data Protection Register and the list wasn't therefore open to inspection.

If someone was holding information on you, it is only fair that you should be able to verify that the information is correct and fair.

Now try explaining that to the Government.

 

[namsag]

OK . back in the 60`s my father was part of the group who brought to notice the dangers of Asbestos in the buiilding industry and as a result just about every site in scotland was shut down and legislation was introduced to protect workers.
When he then went to work in london he had to work under a false name . why . he was labeled an activist ,for trying to save peoples lives.
No he was not a union guy of any sort by far the opposite , but was black labelled for trying to save eoples lives.

Also ther was that many people working under false names the exhequer must have lost a fortune.; One week my da tried to pay 25 john smiths . To much amusement of who had done what hours.

 

[swidders]

Wouldn't go for a blacklist, but would go for a voluntary online CV/reference scheme which would provide details of a person's work qualities and ethics. It would have to include a right-to-appeal in the event of an adverse reference, and for the "employee" to be able to delete any records more than 6 months old as a matter of course.

 

[kevindgas]

is this not already here in the form of Check a trade etc they enrol people on scheme to make them in theory better than everyone else by scare moungering (no I am not and will not join such a scheme) I have been in this industry some 25 years and been self employed for 10 years and I am heartedly sick of these people

 

[Jezclayton]

I notice PHPI have been promoting Checkatrade this month. No doubt it will swell their numbers.

 

[kevindgas]

I notice PHPI have been promoting Checkatrade this month. No doubt it will swell their numbers.

trouble is people get sucked in by the media presence of these parasites
whilst the true representative bodies do no advertising (Crapita being the next Gas registrar yet still not a dickybird from them on the radio, tv or the newspapers)

 

[tim west]

Industry stinks these days with approval being bought at great cost just so you can do what you've always done in the past( electrical for one comes to mind) just because certain bodies have won over the government (wonder how? ), when years ago the EETPU(now Unite) Union tried to introduce a scheme where recognised electricians with recognised qualifications ie City and Guilds would receive photocards to keep out the influx of cowboys that were threatening the industry at the time but lost out to a government that hated unions for one and backed the bodies that now rule the roost(wonder whose mates they were?) and handed power to those that the union were trying to stop in the first place!.

 

[^woody^]

I wonder why most of those companies using the 'blacklist' were construction companies?

If somebody finds that they were on the list and have been turned down for a job from a company known to use the list, then there is potentialy a pot of gold waiting for them to see them through the recession