Class of '98
Article Abstract:
Graduates planning to enter the UK construction industry will have a wide choice of opportunities on their graduation. One of the seven graduates interviewed, from Oxford Brookes University, points out he could earn more from working in sales for a building materials company than he can earn in construction despite having passed a construction management course. The two graduate civil engineers also point to the low salaries as a deterrent for working in the UK. Both architects are likely to find it easy to find work. Their salaries are likely to be between 12,000-19,000 pounds sterling.
Publication Name: Building
Subject: Construction and materials industries
ISSN: 0007-3318
Year: 1998
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
Did the clampdown work?
Article Abstract:
The UK Inland Revenue and Contributions Agency seem to have been successful with the campaign against bogus self-employment in the construction industry they launched in 1997. Some 147,000 people have been taken into direct employment since the campaign was launched. However, there is anecdotal evidence that illegal practices such as cash-in-hand work persist. There has been a rise in costs for contractors that have moved to direct employment, but fierce competition means that most contractors have been forced to absorb these increases, instead of passing them on.
Publication Name: Building
Subject: Construction and materials industries
ISSN: 0007-3318
Year: 1998
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
- Abstracts: RSS take root. D&B helps drill down local search. Travel sites push the hotels out of searchers
- Abstracts: Canadian outsourcing issue, part II. Peeling the credit score onion. ChoicePoint: out of the frying pan....
- Abstracts: What's left of Latham. Don't ignore the formalities. The mechanics of quantum
- Abstracts: Qualifying: are you digging deep enough? Handling the changing trend toward choice
- Abstracts: Direct questions. Give and take: the pact. The outlook is sunny