If someone could advise on the following scenerio:
The standard contract issued by my current Agency states the following regarding payments:
For timesheets submitted by Tuesday of Week 2 for work done in Week 1, then payment will be credited on the Friday of Week 3.
When I read this I wasn't happy about the delay in payment to the end of Week 3. I'd pretty much been used to finalising Invoices by the Monday of Week 2 and then being paid by the Wednesday of Week 2, sometimes the Friday of Week 2 at the latest. This Friday of Week 3 rubbish seemed like a delaying tactic to me.
Anyway, I pointed this out to my Consultant that I was not happy about this arrangement before I signed the contract. They sent me an email which clearly stated they would manually push through the payment for me so that I got paid on the Friday of Week 2 - as they could do this by over-riding the standard system processes, and I was to take the email they sent as confirmation that this would happen.
Anyway, on the 1st week of my contract, I wasn't paid on the Week 2 Friday as promised, it only arrived on Week 3. I pointed this out to the Consultant who said they'd track it for the following week. However, the same thing has happened again this week, and they failed to pay me on Week 2.
Where do I stand from a contractual point of view, in that the agreement was made via an email confirmation as opposed to a variation in the actual contract? As I'm trying to decide how I should respond to this apparent trickery.
The standard contract issued by my current Agency states the following regarding payments:
For timesheets submitted by Tuesday of Week 2 for work done in Week 1, then payment will be credited on the Friday of Week 3.
When I read this I wasn't happy about the delay in payment to the end of Week 3. I'd pretty much been used to finalising Invoices by the Monday of Week 2 and then being paid by the Wednesday of Week 2, sometimes the Friday of Week 2 at the latest. This Friday of Week 3 rubbish seemed like a delaying tactic to me.
Anyway, I pointed this out to my Consultant that I was not happy about this arrangement before I signed the contract. They sent me an email which clearly stated they would manually push through the payment for me so that I got paid on the Friday of Week 2 - as they could do this by over-riding the standard system processes, and I was to take the email they sent as confirmation that this would happen.
Anyway, on the 1st week of my contract, I wasn't paid on the Week 2 Friday as promised, it only arrived on Week 3. I pointed this out to the Consultant who said they'd track it for the following week. However, the same thing has happened again this week, and they failed to pay me on Week 2.
Where do I stand from a contractual point of view, in that the agreement was made via an email confirmation as opposed to a variation in the actual contract? As I'm trying to decide how I should respond to this apparent trickery.
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