Please Advice..Help!

olud · 1st October 2008, 10:02

I started a contract about 3 wks ago based on a verbal agreement with the agent that i would be on a 1 week payroll (paid weekly). I got the contracts and it had a monthly payroll in it so i called the agency who then promised to have it paid. I refused to sign the contract but i am now in my 4th wk and the agent is either avoiding me or giving silly excuses, what should i do. i feel like walking straight out of the contract!

Recruitment Agent · 1st October 2008, 10:09

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Originally Posted by olud

I started a contract about 3 wks ago based on a verbal agreement with the agent that i would be on a 1 week payroll (paid weekly). I got the contracts and it had a monthly payroll in it so i called the agency who then promised to have it paid. I refused to sign the contract but i am now in my 4th wk and the agent is either avoiding me or giving silly excuses, what should i do. i feel like walking straight out of the contract!

ask to be put through to the sales consultant manager and he can autherise this for you with no problems

NotAllThere · 1st October 2008, 10:14

By starting work, you've accept the monthly payment contract.

BolshieBastard · 1st October 2008, 18:23

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Originally Posted by olud

I started a contract about 3 wks ago based on a verbal agreement with the agent that i would be on a 1 week payroll (paid weekly). I got the contracts and it had a monthly payroll in it so i called the agency who then promised to have it paid. I refused to sign the contract but i am now in my 4th wk and the agent is either avoiding me or giving silly excuses, what should i do. i feel like walking straight out of the contract!

You feel like walking off the job because you're getting paid 4 weekly instead of weekly!?

You're not going to last long in this game, are you?

thunderlizard · 1st October 2008, 18:30

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Originally Posted by NotAllThere

By starting work, you've accept the monthly payment contract.

I don't think that's true in this case. By starting work on a contract you've seen, you're deemed to have accepted it. But I'm sure you can't be deemed to have accepted a contract whose terms you've never seen. Actually, by getting the contractor to start work based on an understanding of a weekly payment, the agent has accepted the weekly payment contract, but that will be impossible to prove.

But now that the agent's put something in writing, the contractor would probably be accepting the monthly payment if he carried on working. So my advice is, down tools until you get the change you want.

BolshieBastard · 1st October 2008, 18:37

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Originally Posted by thunderlizard

So my advice is, down tools until you get the change you want.

What and lose money over a trifling issue?

I dont see why people have this obssession with being 'paid' weekly. In most other businesses, you get 'paid' on completion of the job or maybe some at the beginning, some in the middle and most on completion.

thunderlizard · 1st October 2008, 18:42

well, me neither frankly.

I should have said "my advice assuming you're dead set on getting the weekly payment is..."

I mean, that's 4.2 times as much admin to track the payments as for monthly invoices. I'd rather spend the time sitting on the balcony with a glass of Chablis watching the poor people pass by.

Another Dodgy Agent · 1st October 2008, 19:23

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Originally Posted by BolshieBastard

What and lose money over a trifling issue?

I dont see why people have this obssession with being 'paid' weekly. In most other businesses, you get 'paid' on completion of the job or maybe some at the beginning, some in the middle and most on completion.

So true. Beggers belief with some contractors who get in a mad flip because although they earn £800 per day they need the money in the account like yesterday to make a Porsche payment (like its my fault (although I may have put the Porsche idea into their head...)).

VectraMan · 1st October 2008, 20:02

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Originally Posted by BolshieBastard

I dont see why people have this obssession with being 'paid' weekly. In most other businesses, you get 'paid' on completion of the job or maybe some at the beginning, some in the middle and most on completion.

I'm currently involved in legal action over a month's fee from a previous direct client. I wish I'd been paid weekly as then I would have realised sooner something was up. I was lucky not to have ended up chasing 2 months worth.

Seems to me if you have to give an agent a cut you may as well try to get as much out of it as possible, and getting more money from them to you sooner is all good and limits your risk.

But I wouldn't give up a job over it.

oracleslave · 1st October 2008, 20:10

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Originally Posted by VectraMan

I'm currently involved in legal action over a month's fee from a previous direct client. I wish I'd been paid weekly as then I would have realised sooner something was up. I was lucky not to have ended up chasing 2 months worth.

Seems to me if you have to give an agent a cut you may as well try to get as much out of it as possible, and getting more money from them to you sooner is all good and limits your risk.

But I wouldn't give up a job over it.

Sounds like it was all the PM's fault

Sorry, I'll stop now