18th Edition cert issue

[sparkyvr]

Can anyone help as I have taken my 18th edition but the employer I took it with has refused to send the certificate.

They have sent an email of the certificate and I have forwarded this to ECS to update my card but they have put this on hold, for some reason. I no longer work for this company and it seems their way of frustrating me, because I decided to leave their employment.

This has been going on since Jan 2019 and I would like this sorted before the 30 June to maintain my Registered Electrician status.

Any thoughts?

 

[The Ghost]

I suppose they may feel they have spent money on you in the expectation you will provide future worth to them and are rightly miffed you did not. If it was a C&G cert. then can you leapfrog them and get it direct? I assume the place you did your exam is independent from the company you worked for? In which case contact them perhaps. Maybe offer to reimburse them for your course?

 

[Pete999]

In my opinion if the course and Exam was C&G or EAL then the prior company you worked for has very little right to withhold the certificate from you, what CP Scheme did the company belong to? I would contact the Scheme for help.
The Company may be miffed about paying for the course etc, but they are being bloody minded and petty by withholding the certificate, just like a child saying "no you can't have your ball back".

 

[Risteard]

In my opinion if the course and Exam was C&G or EAL then the prior company you worked for has very little right to withhold the certificate from you, what CP Scheme did the company belong to? I would contact the Scheme for help.
The Company may be miffed about paying for the course etc, but they are being bloody minded and petty by withholding the certificate, just like a child saying "no you can't have your ball back".

I would agree that the certificate is his to have, but I can't see what it has to do with a Competent Person's Scheme - so they couldn't involve themselves in the dispute.

 

[Pete999]

I would agree that the certificate is his to have, but I can't see what it has to do with a Competent Person's Scheme - so they couldn't involve themselves in the dispute.

I was trying to point out that it maybe worthwhile contacting them for advice nothing else, they very rarely get involved in much anyway, from comments I have heard, just maybe worth a punt, no harm in asking is there?

 

[Toneyz]

They would not be interested Pete. Ask the ECS why they have put it on hold there has got to be a reason. Send the ECS an email keeping to the point (as this will be looked at by different people and it will be easier for them to understand when calling) Some employers stipulate that if you leave within a timeframe you pay a tapered proportion of the cost as they are now not getting the benefit. Tell the C&G that you have not received your certificate they might send on out FOC.

 

[Pete999]

They would not be interested Pete. Ask the ECS why they have put it on hold there has got to be a reason. Send the ECS an email keeping to the point (as this will be looked at by different people and it will be easier for them to understand when calling) Some employers stipulate that if you leave within a timeframe you pay a tapered proportion of the cost as they are now not getting the benefit. Tell the C&G that you have not received your certificate they might send on out FOC.

Thanks Ant useful to know

 

[sparkyvr]

Many thanks Gents for the comments, I have indeed emailed the ECS and am awaiting a response. Unfortunately it may take up to 14 days to get a response from them and it isn't possible to ring them up to maybe speed up the process.
I figured that as it was a C&G exam with the centre number and my name on the certificate it would have been fairly easy to track
Here hoping for a speedy response.
Once again many thanks for your input.

 

[Charlie_]

How soon did you take the exam before you left their employment?
Did they pay for it?

 

[Red Tony]

How long after your exam did you leave?

 

[sparkyvr]

2 months. Af the time I told them that I didn't want to take the exam as I didn't think I was ready for it. I wanted to do a night course at college to take it all in, and not a 2 day congested course with the exam afterwards.
Fortunately I passed, but I didn't decide to leave until a month later.

 

[Red Tony]

Have you written a letter or better still emailed your previous company to see what the issue is? For me personally surely a company has bigger fish to fry and you should not be getting grief.....however some companies have in your contracts to pay them back for training/courses etc if you leave within 6 months after exam.
Imagine it from their viewpoint if masses of ppl do it.....
If I were you I'd email them and city and guilds.

 

[sparkyvr]

I have emailed ECS, and hopefully they can trace and verify my certificate with a view of altering my new ECS card.
I shall email the C&G Office tomorrow to see what they say.
Manh thanks for your input.

 

[rolyberkin]

You can have a certificate re issued by C&G, unless they are feeling generous they will charge you £44.

 

[sparkyvr]

I know that I have that option as a plan b but, when you take and pass the exam, who receives the certificate 1st, your company or the person taking the exam?