Newbie, confused, you're all going to shout at me

[photomile]

Ok, got my first contract. Great. The agency has sent me the contract, however it's addressed to my umbrella company (I asked for a copy). I understand they sign certain things and return them but does this mean that I then take the bits I want to sign and send them to the agency, or do I await an actual contract from my umbrella company to sign and return?

*prepares for flaming*

[northernladuk]

I don't have a clueb but shouldn't this be something you discussed with your Umbrella when you signed with them? Might have been prudent to find out how the service yu have signed up for works no?

[photomile]

I don't have a clueb but shouldn't this be something you discussed with your Umbrella when you signed with them? Might have been prudent to find out how the service yu have signed up for works no?

I do agree except I had thirty mins to sign up and decide. I'll give them a call tomorrow

[cojak]

Good idea, let us know what they say.

[Scrag Meister]

In this situation the chain of "employment" runs you->umbrella->agent-> clientco.

Your contract I presume will be with the umbrella.

[LisaContractorUmbrella]

Hi Photomile

There are several different contracts that exist within a contractor/agency/umbrella company/client relationship. You should have received a contract of employment from your umbrella company that you will need to sign. They will then sign a business to business contract with the agency offering the assignment and the agency, in turn, has a business to business contract with the client for whom you will be working.

HTH

[photomile]

Eactly as above, called them and they took care of everything, essentially it was an agreement with the particular recruitment agency, but in any case they will forward me the bits if I need them, like opting out

[mudskipper]

Eactly as above, called them and they took care of everything, essentially it was an agreement with the particular recruitment agency, but in any case they will forward me the bits if I need them, like opting out

You need to read the opting out sticky.

[keninparis]

Newbie (confused), please take some time to get to grips with things.

[SueEllen]

You need to read the opting out sticky.

WKS

photomile take your time to look around the forum and use the search facility. Every question you can think of is 99% likely to have been asked before.

Obviously if you are still confused there is nothing wrong in indicating you have read several threads on the issue when you post.