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Tuesday 14 February 2017

Is Rupert Williiams of UKPC shafting his employees?

The Prankster has received information that Rupert Williams of UKPC is shafting his employees.

Mr Williams can of course conduct affairs in his company as he wishes, as he has all the class A shares in his company - the only ones which have voting rights.

These do not make easy bedfellows with the class B shares. These are all owned by his wife, Amanda Williams, and do not have any voting rights. Amanda Williams is obviously not feeling the love as she was terminated as secretary in September 2016.

UKPC's annual accounts reveal the business employs 209 employees, and Mr Williams states on page 2 of the report that retention and training is of utmost importance. Mr Williams has devised schemes to motivate and incentivise his employees.

Wages and salaries came to £4,308,290, or an average of £20,613 per employee.

However, the employee breakdown is 149 operations 10 management, 40 administration. It appears from this recent advert that attendants (operations) get between £13,650 and £16,380.


Assuming they all get £9/hour, this leaves £1,867,670, or an average of around £37,000 for management and administration. Of course, this is only an average. Some employees may be getting a lot more from Rupert than others.

Mr Williams on the other hand, has awarded himself** £663,861 in dividends.

Not content with that, he has effectively paid himself another £690,821 by writing off loans of £639,538 to Pins and Stripes Ltd and advancing them another £51,283. Rupert owns all the shares in Pins and Stripes Ltd.

As Pins and Stripes are in liquidation, UKPC are unlikely to get any of that back.

Mr Williams also gets another £7k in salary.

So, the Prankster considers Mr Williams is shafting his employees, given that he is taking £1.4 million a year from the business, or around 100 times more than his operations staff get.

Rupert also appears to be putting himself around a bit, with a number of other companies listing him as officer.

THE PAYMENT COLLECTOR LIMITED
UKPC MANAGEMENT LIMITED
UK PARKING CONTROLS LTD
BLACK LABEL CLOTHING LTD
SHOP APPI LTD
PINS & STRIPES LTD
LIKE FATHER LIKE SON LTD
PENROSE LIVING LIMITED

However, it is not all bad news. The business retains £362,848 assets so there is plenty of money to expand, hire new employees and improve the business. Perhaps Rupert could consider getting rid of paper permits in his residential car parks and moving into the 21century with electronic registration of resident and visitor cars.

So, is Mr Williams shafting his employees? Only his employees can really answer that, so if any UKPC employee is reading this and agrees or disagrees, they are of course free to email the Prankster at prankster@parking-prankster.com and explain how they are feeling the love (or not), and remain motivated and incentivised. Perhaps they are all happy to be part of a vibrant, growing company with a lovely career path ahead of them, and enough capital retained in the business that there is not prospect of cutbacks or redundancies.

Happy Parking

The Parking Prankster

**It is not clear how dividends were allocated between A and B shareholders, so The Prankster is not sure whether Amanda is getting any or not.


9 comments:

  1. I dont think Amanda is getting any...suspect he is otherwise busy using his combined harvester to sow seeds in other avenues of his business affairs.

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    1. could you expand on this Dave? was it a typo when you said business affairs ? or affairs within the business?

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    2. Depends on his harvester - quote from How a CH is made

      "The grain pan vibrates, shaking the kernels, the chaff, and some heads that made it through the threshing cylinder intact into a set of vibrating sieves"


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  2. So he loaned a large sum to another of his businesses then it conveniently goes into liquidation? Am I a cynic?

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  3. He might want to invest in a toothbrush factory for his mate over at VCS

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  4. "Is Rupert Williiams of UKPC shafting his employees?"


    just the one ,,,,,,,,,,,,,

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  5. Likes to motivate and incentivise......to the point where they commit fraud!

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  6. This guy sound very dodgy and his come has he evrn been allowed to fun this busy since he was caught doing dodgy stuff in 2017 with tickets. I am now to look into this Company & ALL companies run by this man as I am disgusted that he seems go have been lining his pockets in ways that seem dodgy.Plus the cheek of him claiming furlong money from the Goverment .I want to also know how much he claimed.plus how many companies he has right now and how much he loaned other companies he set up and then closed them after giving thrm hundreds of thousands of pounds.. Drivers that a fined dodgy by this companies must be allowed to SUE him for Stress & legal costs .Time to turn the tables on dodgy companies run by people like him .Any staff or ex staff wanna contact me

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