Contract Agency Rate advice.

[LucidDementia]

after they've signed the contract and have been paying the agreed amount for 3 months? no chance

WHS

Kick-em tulipless.

[jmo21]

Surely a mistake is when they say "The rate is now £400/day", then the contract comes through, and it says eg £425, and you knowingly don't tell them.

Retrospectively back dating a rate cut further, when that new figure was never mentioned to you can't possibly be enforceable can it?

[fool]

Surely a mistake is when they say "The rate is now £400/day", then the contract comes through, and it says eg £425, and you knowingly don't tell them.

Retrospectively back dating a rate cut further, when that new figure was never mentioned to you can't possibly be enforceable can it?

Their relationship isn't yours, so no, it doesn't matter and they can't make you eat a rate cut they never told you about. I actually had a colleague who rejected their renewal when the agency told our department he'd accepted.

He wasn't sure whether he wanted to stay, but I pointed out he had them by the nuts and he quite happily renewed for £150 extra p/d. They're almost certainty losing money on him but that's the price they pay for screwing up.

It's not their god given right to make a profit and it's their own problem if they failed to push a rate reduction on to you. They can only do this going forward where you have the ability to say "no thanks" and leave.

[Andy Hallett]

I think they'd struggle to justify a retro rate cut either ethically or under contract.*












* Unless it is one of our brands, in which case pay the money back.