Parasol knows what contractors expect

Since 2000 we’ve looked after over 47,000 satisfied employees at Parasol, so we’ve got to know about what people expect from us.

Here are some of the questions we’re asked on a daily basis, to which we can answer, hand-on-heart, YES, YES and YES again. So, if you’re considering signing up with any other UK employment provider, it might be worth asking them these same questions first:

  • Are travel, meals and accommodation expenses reimbursed to me tax free within HMRC guidelines?
  • Do you have real live people at the end of a phone, available to help me 24/7?
  • Do I get insurance cover up to £25million?
  • Do you have an industry leading online portal that lets me accept assignments, enter timesheets, claim expenses, and track my pay online?
  • Can you offer same day payments, meaning I get my money as quickly as possible?
  • Can you help me work even more tax efficiently by discussing my pension options with a specialist Independent Financial Adviser?
  • Is payment guaranteed within 48 hours of you receiving it from the agency or client?
  • Will you ensure all my expense claims are fully legit, so I can sleep at night knowing the taxman won’t be on my case?

Our security is top notch

Parasol is not only ISO:9001 quality assured but also takes the security of personal information very seriously.  Our secure online portal ‘My Parasol’ has the same security features as online banking (for techies, we use RC4 128 Bit High Grade encryption). Our dedicated web servers are all located separetely from our offices and use dedicated hardware firewalls in world class data centres with mirrored operations (courtesy of Rackspace) and a 100% uptime guarantee.  We also have a full guaranteed business continuity plan (tested twice a year) so in the highly unlikely event of a disaster, the whole Parasol operation would continue unhindered.