Do you inform the agent of when you take time off in contract

[MarillionFan]

What a lovely human being that PM is.

I hold a grudge for that. I have his linked in profile and one day, what goes around will comes around.

[Pogle]

The agency finds out when I submit a timesheet of 0 hours for that day.
As long as clientco know and are ok with it, I don't bother telling the agency

[VectraMan]

I'd just submit a timesheet with zeros on it. Though I did that last year and the agent still phoned me up a month later asking about a missing timesheet.

I suppose you should tell the agent in advance; I just figured they don't really care.

[Wanderer]

The reason I'm asking though is in my current contract it states if I am away I need to let both the client and agent know. I've never really noticed this is in my other contracts although it may have been there but it makes me think now given what agencies are like and other threads on here what if they come back and say 'you never let us know about your 2 weeks off, we want compensation for money lost'

I took a month off and didn't tell the agent. They just don't get timesheets for those weeks, simples. Sometimes they will send a polite note if there was no timesheet for a particular week and I would just reply that I didn't work that week so won't be sending one.

Compensation for money lost? I'm sure that some will try it on but I would just tell them to go to hell, there's no mutuality of obligation in my contract so I'm not obliged to work if I don't want to. If they want to supply me to the client for a %age cut of the fees or for a fixed price for the contract then that's between them and the client. If I don't work and they don't earn then that's their problem not mine.