Apprentice Scaffolder

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Apprentice Scaffolder
Job Location: Bishop's Stortford/various
Job Role: Apprentice Scaffolder
Employment Status: Full Time
Salary Range: Weekly Rate based on 40 hours - Year 1 £180, Year £240, Year 3 £280
Hours: Yard hours are 09.00-18.00 hrs. Site hours are 08.00-17.00 hrs (each 8 hrs + 1 hr of breaks)
Joining Date: ASAP

Please send your application to:

HR Department
Connect Scaffolding Ltd
Hadham Park, Hadham Road, Bishop's Stortford, Herts CM23 1JH
Email: hr@connectscaffolding.co.uk
Telephone: 01279 713380
 
**** Firm Though!! Most Of Managment Are Bunch Of Coke Heads!
 
windy miller said:
that is £4.50hr, £6.00hr, £7.00hr. get real will ya, they can get more stacking shelfs
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It is.
Its very crap money.

I wonder how much work they will want their 'apprentices' to do?
Who wants to bet that they do far more then what you would expect an apprentice to actually do.


Another way of getting a youngster to work his balls off for f.uck-all and call it 'training'? :unsure:
 
They have to start somewhere and they won't earn the company much in their first couple of years.
 
I would tend to agree but it would depend on a lot of factors. We pay the apprentices a working wage but expect them to stand shoulder to shoulder with the scaffs till the job's done, there is no easing in period tossing it off in the yard.
 
Good start for a budding scaff,better wages than the 3 quid an hour i started on...x ammount of weeks at collage,tickets at the end of it..and to the right sort of lad,a great chance to learn..
 
It was £8 a day when i started ,

like Aom says you gotta give the young lads a living wage or they are soon gonna loose interest , i always dangle a pay rise to spur them on and the good ones soon rise to the top
If i was starting a school lever , total green horn i would offer them £40 a day to start then in 6 months £45 a day , and £5 a day rise every 6 months after that
but they gotta improve in every 6 months , any that dont get better or improve every 6 months aint worth keeping (and i sub them to scaffy :laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh: ) always worked for me.
 
very very poor . we are all meant to stick together and i would never see anyone work for that in the hard handed trade that we all do . its a back breakin job. Get the Money right the union never fought for us to get they kind of wages. i know times are hard but like said u could stack shelfs and go home wi no worries and a health back , lets face it scaffolding time takes it toll on the body.
 
philliosmaximus said:
It was £8 a day when i started ,

like Aom says you gotta give the young lads a living wage or they are soon gonna loose interest , i always dangle a pay rise to spur them on and the good ones soon rise to the top
If i was starting a school lever , total green horn i would offer them £40 a day to start then in 6 months £45 a day , and £5 a day rise every 6 months after that
but they gotta improve in every 6 months , any that dont get better or improve every 6 months aint worth keeping (and i sub them to scaffy :laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh: ) always worked for me.
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For a new start on the street that is as good as it gets ,you have to remember that it may only take a couple of years to double that money if they a taught rite .
 
Thats right Damo but by a couple of years they should be making their own money and profit for the company , plus you are putting them through their courses
 
A lot of people get the wrong idea about street firms especially the small ones I got all my tickets through a small outfit and yes it was sh*te money to begin with but now I can prety much work anywhere for good money,you got to start somewhere havnt you.
 
Thats the good thing about starting young you can live with the small money and by the time you have responsibility's to pay for your money has gone up.
 
Edinburghscaffold said:
very very poor . we are all meant to stick together and i would never see anyone work for that in the hard handed trade that we all do . its a back breakin job. Get the Money right the union never fought for us to get they kind of wages. i know times are hard but like said u could stack shelfs and go home wi no worries and a health back , lets face it scaffolding time takes it toll on the body.
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I don't want too turn this thread too one sided but Paddy Carr posted the actual agreed rates that we legally have to pay the young team, and they are shockingly low but they are all expense to start with and no return so that's why I think the wages on offer are right. I agree with all the above posts and stand by my wage structure but I can't honestly remember one of the young team coming to me for more cash as they get loads of them for every rung of the ladder.
 
If I ever have a young un with me and they really try and learn I don't mind bungin em a few quid out of my own pocket ,being fair goes a long way ,and you don't get any where by being a bas**rd all the time.
 
bigfish said:
MINIMUM WAGE FOR AN APPRENTICE IS £2.60 PER HOUR:eek:
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In 1964 the apprentice/labourer scaffolding rate was £0.18 pence per hour or £7.20 per week, and seeing that an apprentice bricklayer,plumber or joiner was on around £3.00 per week i felt like a millionaire
 
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