Is This Legal?

[malvolio]

Good. Someone else who doesn't understand. Well done.

[Mordac]

I'm with them at the moment and they have been excellent

Not if you wish to operate outside IR35 they aren't. If you're a BoS Brolly contractor I'm sure they are fine. I used them a lot in the 90's but they've turned into Regressive so I won't deal with them any more.

[privateeye]

Not if you wish to operate outside IR35 they aren't. If you're a BoS Brolly contractor I'm sure they are fine. I used them a lot in the 90's but they've turned into Regressive so I won't deal with them any more.

They are another company that only employs graduates who cannot get other jobs - not experienced recruiters. Their business model is structured around the amount of CV's submitted and not the quality contained within the CV. They may be doing well for themselves but are a company I choose not to do business with either as a contractor or when recruiting for the current client.

[Mailman]

To be fair to them they've always paid on time over the length of the contract and answered most questions pretty quickly. I think if you play by their rules all is grand but step out the box and they don't like it.

Agents like this are worth keeping then. The easy thing is just to make your changes at the end of the current contract. No hassles, no problems and everyone is kept happy.

Mailman

[Torran]

Good. Someone else who doesn't understand. Well done.

[malvolio]

Up yours, sweetpea, I'm serious. Consider...

S3 group who own CP and others are determined to build a market where the only source of contractors is through them and similar monolithic companies. They are also behind the consultations that gave us IR35 in the first place (which was nothing to do with fair taxation but is actually all about limiting their competition). It is their marketing strategy that has fed so much FUD into the HR world that we get all these stupid and unnecessary interferences in the way we try to work.

They have also conned you into signing a contrct that effectively makes you their employee, except that you get none of the rights that employees have been getting since around the middle of the 19th century.

So if you think that is a good move and they are a good comapny to be with, carry on. Meanwhile, the grown-ups may not necessarily agree with you.

[Alexander Coe]

To be fair to them they've always paid on time over the length of the contract and answered most questions pretty quickly. I think if you play by their rules all is grand but step out the box and they don't like it.

Thats fair enough...

I'm with them at the moment and they have been excellent

But to display this amount of enthusiasm about any agency, especially Computer People, you've got to be pimp in disguise

[cojak]

Ooh you old cynic, Alex!

[Alexander Coe]

Its that smilie wave that really sets the alarm bell ringing!!!

[Denny]

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CF actually.