The Umbrella Companies Blog Archive: June 2008
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I'm guessing that most of you will be reading this on Monday, and some of you will be reading post Glastonbury, to which I have to say, glad you survived, and I hope you had a good time. There is a small Gabem contingent there in the thick of it and we're looking forward to the stories.

So what news have we for you today? You'll be pleased to hear that the P11D's are going out today, so those of you filling in a self-assessment will be able to get a bit of a head start. We are still operating our service for completing your self-assessment for you, unfortunately it is separate from the rest of the Gabem Umbrella Companies service and costs just £82.25 if you are interested (end of shameless plug).

Due to the success and feedback we've had about our Recommend a Friend offer, the closing date has been extended from 9th of July until the 9th of August (you can ignore the date on the cards we're sending out), so take advantage while you can, you could potentially be £50 better off, just take a look here.

We're also getting a good response from the quality of service questionnaire we sent out last Friday, but would still like to hear from more of you. Even if you're only in it for the prize draw it's still a valuable way for you to tell us how we could make working through Gabem Umbrella Companies even better.

If you have a comment on this post or just want to get in touch, feel free to click Hugo below and send me an email.

Hope you all have a great weekend.

Hugo
27/06/2008

Hi and welcome to the first post in what will be the Gabem blog. We're going to try to keep this up to date as much as possible, it'll be me the Gabem web guy, members of our client relations team and whoever else we can draft in for writing duties. We've started this to keep you better up to date with relevant changes in the contracting industry, things you should look out for and to let you know about things happening here at Waterside.

As yet we haven't been able to find blogging software compatible with the products we use today, so for the time being it will be just us posting things to this page. If you want to make suggestions, or make a comment to us there will be a link after each post that you can use to contact us, and we'd be glad to hear your views.

Okay so first actual topic: some of you may have seen UCATT's recent call to abolish CIS to end "bogus self-employment", we don't know what your take on it is, but Trudy Gordon our managing director felt strongly enough about it that she wrote a letter commenting on it. Contract Journal printed it in their last issue, but it's also available here for you all to see.

You may have seen a few changes around the site lately, we've cut a lot of the old pages that we felt were clutter and tried to reform it all into more accessible chunks in our FAQ and Glossary pages. We're now at the stage where we're adding even more, for example, Susan's Legal Bit's has started up in the information section alongside information on the pension scheme you can join with Friends Provident.

I hope that we've been suitably informative as a first post, if you'd like to comment or suggest anything please just click on Hugo below.

Hugo
25/06/2008