Agency Risk

[NotAllThere]

It's not hunkydory for them when you walk because you haven't been paid, and you leave them in the lurch.

Anyway - do the proper dunning process as detailed on www.payontime.co.uk Then hit the agency with a statutory notice to pay.

[kryten22uk]

Got paid for March work today. So thats a start. I sent the agency an email explaining the Late Payment of Commercial Debts Act 1998, and stating my intention to exercise my rights to compensation. But he just says that he only pays me when he gets paid. I cant seem to get it through that there is no contingent liability here. Its irrelevant when he gets paid, he has a legal obligation to pay my invoice in 30days. Anyway I said this in another email and await his response.

I'm confident that this guy isnt bankrupt; just cr@p.

[Menelaus]

Got paid for March work today. So thats a start. I sent the agency an email explaining the Late Payment of Commercial Debts Act 1998, and stating my intention to exercise my rights to compensation. But he just says that he only pays me when he gets paid. I cant seem to get it through that there is no contingent liability here. Its irrelevant when he gets paid, he has a legal obligation to pay my invoice in 30days. Anyway I said this in another email and await his response.

I'm confident that this guy isnt bankrupt; just cr@p.

Start charging him interest and put him on notice that on day 31 beyond the date of your most recent invoice you're walking off site if he hasn't paid you.

When I was but a baby analyst the risk bloke I worked with had a sign above his desk which read "Credit is a privilege, not a right".