Hi all, long time contractor (over 12 years) first time caller.
For the first time in a long while I'm back looking for work. Applied for a role through an agency I'd never heard of before (often a mistake), let's call them originalName, get an interview and was offered the role the same day.
Now, from the moment the offer came in the agency suddenly changed name from originalName to newName, an agency that I had heard of, claiming that initially they had been working through a trading name. All the contract paperwork when it turned up (after many days) was using newName.
My question is, why would an agency do this unless they were hiding something?
It has to be said that newAgency has been not the most pleasant to deal with, has taken almost 5 days to get paperwork to me, has tried all the tricks in the world to get me to opt-out, has the worst payment terms I have ever seen, does not allow the contractor to terminate the agreement, has been phoning and emailing constantly, trying to get me to accept the offer before seeing the contract and has already told the client to expect me on site this week.
Have I been lucky these past years or is this now what's called "common practice"?
Thanks
UBP
For the first time in a long while I'm back looking for work. Applied for a role through an agency I'd never heard of before (often a mistake), let's call them originalName, get an interview and was offered the role the same day.
Now, from the moment the offer came in the agency suddenly changed name from originalName to newName, an agency that I had heard of, claiming that initially they had been working through a trading name. All the contract paperwork when it turned up (after many days) was using newName.
My question is, why would an agency do this unless they were hiding something?
It has to be said that newAgency has been not the most pleasant to deal with, has taken almost 5 days to get paperwork to me, has tried all the tricks in the world to get me to opt-out, has the worst payment terms I have ever seen, does not allow the contractor to terminate the agreement, has been phoning and emailing constantly, trying to get me to accept the offer before seeing the contract and has already told the client to expect me on site this week.
Have I been lucky these past years or is this now what's called "common practice"?
Thanks
UBP
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