Website to choose best 'umbrella'
The former managing director of PAYE umbrella company OrangeGenie, Peter Warren, has launched www.umbrellasupermarket.com, a website to compare umbrella companies.
Warren told Recruiter: "There's 40-50 umbrella companies out there and this website will help identify the best ones and the ones to avoid."
The website invites anonymous comments from contractors and gives each umbrella company a score.
Warren said he already receives 100-150 surveys a day from contractors, but that he intends to have 50,000 by early summer 2008. He is also inviting articles from umbrella companies themselves.
Director Chris Bryce said that PCG had heard from several contractors who were due to have been paid in June and July.
As Recruiter went to press, the administrators, Chantrey Vellacott, had not returned phone calls to com
