Employer Membership

What are the advantages of Membership?

The main advantage of Employer Membership is access to the services provided by the administrative staff of the JIB. These include:

• Unlimited, impartial and practical advice on employee relations issues, including the avoidance of grievances and resolution of disputes.

• Nationally negotiated rates of wages and conditions of employment, eliminating the need for Company wage reviews and providing a stable basis for tendering.

• Nationally recognised training schemes, linked to NVQs, specifically designed to provide the skills required by the Industry.

Note: JTL, formed by the same partnership as the JIB, is the principal Managing Agent for the recruitment and placement of Apprentices. All JTL Apprentices are fully funded.

• Participation in the Electrotechnical Certification Scheme (ECS), including free issue of photo ID style cards to all eligible operatives. This scheme recognises individual skills and provides evidence of their competence to clients.

• JIB Employer Members are required to offer grading to their Operatives and their rate of pay is dependent upon the grade allocated.

• Through the obligatory purchase of a weekly credit, Employer Members access a Combined Benefits Scheme which helps them to comply with current legislation on Holiday Pay as well as providing their Operatives with:

BUPA Membership

Regular Health Screening

Sickness Benefit

Permanent & Total Disability Benefit

Death Benefit

Opportunity to join Amicus

This Benefits scheme is non-contributory on the part of the Operative and there are cost savings to the Employer due to the unique National Insurance arrangements which apply to the Scheme.

By purchasing these Benefits Credits through the ECIBA both the employer and employee are except from paying National Insurance Contributions on holiday pay. This is due to a unique arrangement with the Inland Revenue and saves employer approximately £300 per year per operative.

• Access to the JIB Pension Scheme. This is voluntary but can be used as an alternative to a Stakeholder Pension, which all Employers of more than five staff are obliged by Law to provide.

Can anyone be a JIB Member?

There are two related categories of JIB Membership.

1) Electrical Contractors

Companies must:

(a) Be engaged in Electrical Contracting* within England, Wales, Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands, or be an Employer of Electricians for the maintenance of electrical installations.

(b) Employ two or more adult Operatives, one of whom can be the proprietor.

(c) Have been trading for one year in its present form.

* The Electrical Contracting Industry includes the design, manufacture, sale, distribution, installation, erection, maintenance, repair and renewal of all kinds of electrical, electronic, instrumentation and environmental installations, equipment and appliance and ancillary plant activities.

2) Cabling and Jointing Contractors

Membership as a Cabling and Jointing Contractor is additional and separate to standard JIB Membership. To be included upon the JIB Register of Cabling and Jointing Contractors, a firm will be placed upon a one years probationary period and must satisfy requirements laid down by the Cabling and Jointing Committee. Full details of these very specific requirements can be supplied upon request.

What does JIB Membership cost?

There is an annual subscription common to all companies plus an additional fee which varies as it is based on labour force. Details of the current charges are show below.

Alternatively, you may wish to consider joining the ECA which will entitle you to Membership of the JIB free of charge. For details of your local ECA Regional Manager, please contact their head office on 020 7313 4800 or visit the ECA web site.

Subscription for 2008

The annual subscription for 2008 is £206.00 plus £76.00 for each adult electrical operative employed. There is no subscription paid in respect of Apprentices.

How do I find out more?

Download an Initial Enquiry Form by clicking the following link:

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Please complete the form and send it to the JIB Membership Secretary at our postal address.