I was wondering if anyone has any advice for late payments. I'm currently working on a contract which has cost me dearly financialy over the past 2 weeks.
My line manager emailed our timesheets to the agency and client project manager - all employees were copied in on the email together with read and delivery reciepts, as per every week. 2 weeks later and we still haven't been paid, together with the usual fobbing off by both the agency and the client. After some digging around we've found out that the agency had the 2 people who deal with our contracts and timesheets both off on holiday at the same time. also after re-sending the timesheets 5 times to both the agency and the client project manager, the client project manager has said that the 5th time was the first time he'd seen our timesheets for that particular week.
This has obviously cost us a weeks wages. We've all got bills and mortgages to pay and rely on the clients and agencies to pay us on time. Due to not being paid I've obviously incurred bank charges. And there's still no sign of us being paid. Am I entitled to claim the bank charges back from the client/ agency- whether as expenses or whatever?
I'm not the only one affected and in the same situation, as other colleagues can't even afford the petrol to get to work.
Also, anyone ever come across the "N/A" in their contract as their notice period. I was advised that this is ambigous and denotes that a notice period is not required. But the agency has stated that this means that I can't give notice as its "N/A". This was a seperate contract a few months ago with a deifferent agency.
Any advice on both of these would be much appreciated.
My line manager emailed our timesheets to the agency and client project manager - all employees were copied in on the email together with read and delivery reciepts, as per every week. 2 weeks later and we still haven't been paid, together with the usual fobbing off by both the agency and the client. After some digging around we've found out that the agency had the 2 people who deal with our contracts and timesheets both off on holiday at the same time. also after re-sending the timesheets 5 times to both the agency and the client project manager, the client project manager has said that the 5th time was the first time he'd seen our timesheets for that particular week.
This has obviously cost us a weeks wages. We've all got bills and mortgages to pay and rely on the clients and agencies to pay us on time. Due to not being paid I've obviously incurred bank charges. And there's still no sign of us being paid. Am I entitled to claim the bank charges back from the client/ agency- whether as expenses or whatever?
I'm not the only one affected and in the same situation, as other colleagues can't even afford the petrol to get to work.
Also, anyone ever come across the "N/A" in their contract as their notice period. I was advised that this is ambigous and denotes that a notice period is not required. But the agency has stated that this means that I can't give notice as its "N/A". This was a seperate contract a few months ago with a deifferent agency.
Any advice on both of these would be much appreciated.
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