Help please

[eek]

If I did work 16 hours in one day then what would mean and how would it alter my case? Thanks

It would mean that if you had billed for 2 days and they want to be really awkward they could claim that it was a single day.

[Scruff]

Many thanks for the advice so far. Just to clarify, it was averbal agreement of £385 per day and NO hourly rate or how many hours make up a day was discussed.

Does this change anything?

Does anyone know a good lawyer please?

Thanks

How can it have been a verbal agreement? Anyone entering into a verbal agreement is going to have greater difficulty proving it when there is a signed agreement already in place.

What does your signed agreement state?

Goes to the recommendation of confirming all verbal amendments in writing by all contracting parties.

[GillsMan]

Many thanks for the advice so far. Just to clarify, it was averbal agreement of £385 per day and NO hourly rate or how many hours make up a day was discussed.

You got that verbal agreement written up into a signed contract, right? Right??

[LisaContractorUmbrella]

Many thanks for the advice so far. Just to clarify, it was averbal agreement of £385 per day and NO hourly rate or how many hours make up a day was discussed.

Does this change anything?

Does anyone know a good lawyer please?

Thanks

Do you have nothing in writing regarding the rate???

[d000hg]

Do you have nothing in writing regarding the rate???

Wouldn't all those paid invoices stating the rate charged back him up regardless?

[LisaContractorUmbrella]

Wouldn't all those paid invoices stating the rate charged back him up regardless?

No not necessarily - if the agency offered a day rate but based on a minimum number or set number of working hours and then it came to light that the hours worked were becoming far less than those required they would be within their rights to refuse to pay the day rate. If the day rate is written into a contract with no such stipulation then it's a different matter although they could argue that the definition of a 'working day' would not generally be accepted as anything less than say 7 hours

[tractor]

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If I did work 16 hours in one day then what would mean and how would it alter my case? Thanks

You would need to answer my question first. Read it again.

1. Did you bill for whole days regardless of the hours worked or
2. Did you work longer than 8 hours and bill more than one day for it?

If you did the latter without an agreement, they would probably be right to look at it again. What does it actually state in your contract.

[sal]

You got that verbal agreement written up into a signed contract, right? Right??

^This and:

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I informed them that their internal timesheet system, filled in by myself was for their records only and that I had been honest a put down the hours assigned to each client and the work I did for each client so they could calculate the cost to their client exactly, what I didn’t put down was toilet or tea breaks or down time waiting for meetings etc as this was not an option on their internal time sheet system - this time not assigned adds up to roughly 30 minutes per day.....

But it did add up to 7-8 hours/day right? Because if it didn't this is the most probable ground for the review. As they are now aggregating all hours recorded dividing them by 7 or 8 which is the norm and coming up less days than you billed for. There is no client who will pay you a daily rate just because you showed at the office for a 2h meeting and then buggered off.

[TheFaQQer]

But it did add up to 7-8 hours/day right? Because if it didn't this is the most probable ground for the review. As they are now aggregating all hours recorded dividing them by 7 or 8 which is the norm and coming up less days than you billed for. There is no client who will pay you a daily rate just because you showed at the office for a 2h meeting and then buggered off.

If you have a daily rate agreed, then you invoice for the days that you worked, regardless of the amount of hours that you work that day.

If the client refuses to pay for the days that you have worked, then you sue to get what is due to you.

[jmo21]

If you have a daily rate agreed, then you invoice for the days that you worked, regardless of the amount of hours that you work that day.

If the client refuses to pay for the days that you have worked, then you sue to get what is due to you.

Guessing they are expecting X hours per day or per week, and this is what they are getting him on.