Agent demands I give him my NI number, othervise they cannot pay me

[LondonManc]

Hi comrades,

So I am about to embark on a contract, but have to go through a storm of agency BS.

Agent is telling me that agency cannot pay me until I give them my NI number. What are they trying to atchieve? Agency is paying my company, not me. So why do they want my NI number?

Compared to what they want for Investment Banking contracts, that's like comparing a postcard to a novel

[stek]

Its all BS, if your Ltd you pay your own NI etc, I have experienced different agents asking for different things from the same agency. Could be a rookie agent new on the job or in the contracting recruitement space

Utter crap.

[LondonManc]

Its all BS, if your Ltd you pay your own NI etc, I have experienced different agents asking for different things from the same agency. Could be a rookie agent new on the job or in the contracting recruitement space

You didn't used to work in Byron's HR team did you?