Help! Company not paying me for days worked for them!

[Old Greg]

Assuming you have done a forum search for 'dunning'?

[psychocandy]

As others have said, no chance for the month, but they should pay you for the time you worked.

Think they're trying it on here with the 4 days idea.

Sounds like maybe they planned a month, budget has disappeared and now they dont really want to pay for 13 days but someone is trying to look good by getting away with paying for 4 days.

I'd be looking at court route here....

[PazzoRilancio]

Hey All,

Just an update, they were replying to me within 5 minutes of every email up till my last one yesterday which explained that, as they agreed that I'd worked for 13 days there, I wouldn't accept payment for only 4 days when the contract was worth 20 etc...

I'm hoping they come back and offer me the payment for the 13 days which I'd be happy with.

But now they've gone completely quiet! I'll keep you all updated but I'll most likely send another email today to ask if there's any progress on whether the outstanding invoice will be paid, and if no reply I guess I'll have to start looking into the court route!

Thanks All

[malvolio]

Hey All,

Just an update, they were replying to me within 5 minutes of every email up till my last one yesterday which explained that, as they agreed that I'd worked for 13 days there, I wouldn't accept payment for only 4 days when the contract was worth 20 etc...

I'm hoping they come back and offer me the payment for the 13 days which I'd be happy with.

But now they've gone completely quiet! I'll keep you all updated but I'll most likely send another email today to ask if there's any progress on whether the outstanding invoice will be paid, and if no reply I guess I'll have to start looking into the court route!

Thanks All

Sounds to me like someone at the client has twigged they have a problem outside their ablility to resolve and have escalated it to the man with the cheque book.

[GB9]

"Although the total duration of you working with us was 13 days we can only pay for the time you spent doing [COMPANY] work. I’ve had a chat with [CONTACT NAME] to get his perspective on this and we think four days is reasonable compensation for the time you spent working with us and the output of what you produced."

Reading that it appears they are saying they don't believe that you spent 13 days on their work (even if you were there 13 days) and that your output isn't worth 13 days. If this is the case then you may have more of a struggle and if they are going to stick to this line then it will be up to the Court to resolve.

Do you have copies of what you actually delivered and are you happy they are worth 13 days payment?

[psychocandy]

Reading that it appears they are saying they don't believe that you spent 13 days on their work (even if you were there 13 days) and that your output isn't worth 13 days. If this is the case then you may have more of a struggle and if they are going to stick to this line then it will be up to the Court to resolve.

Do you have copies of what you actually delivered and are you happy they are worth 13 days payment?

Now thats a slippery slope when clients get to choose how many days they think you were worth!

They'll all be at it.

[GB9]

Now thats a slippery slope when clients get to choose how many days they think you were worth!

Yes, agree with that. There has to be the onus on the company to terminate the contract of anyone they feel isn't delivering the goods. You can't reasonably allow someone to work for a prolonged period of time without saying if you feel their output isn't up to it.

Having said that, if the company only feels the OP was working on their work 4 days, then they may have a case. Payment should be for work done as opposed to days sitting on site.

[psychocandy]

Having said that, if the company only feels the OP was working on their work 4 days, then they may have a case. Payment should be for work done as opposed to days sitting on site.

Yeh but how do you prove that? It surely leads the way open for dodgy clients to get a discount by claiming you only worked 4 days worth out of 5 or something.

[Safe Collections]

Proof wise:
1) Emails from them requesting things on 9 separate days including 1st and last day.
2) Email from them confirming I "worked for them" for 13 days as quoted!!!

They admitted they didn't need my services like they thought they would, but suggesting they pay me LESS for that is beyond scandalous.

Once this is settled I'll reveal who (and may be in touch with journalists).

This looks like the key to us.

They admit you "worked for them" for thirteen days by email so how they can now backtrack to offering four days is beyond us.

Any issues with budgets, lack of available work etc fall under the bracket of their problems, not yours.

If you were on site and available to work, you have likely fulfilled your obligations and deserve to be paid accordingly.

We would be tempted to give them a deadline to pay the amount for thirteen days or you will add late payment costs, interest and collection charges

[BigRed]

Payment should be for work done as opposed to days sitting on site.

Sacrilege!!!

Seriously though, I've started several contracts where the first couple of weeks has been spent waiting for provision of security pass/laptop/userid and everyone is too busy to hold a constructive meeting. Once I've got some sort of access I can be proactive, but there's only so much you can do. If they can't get their act together it's their problem.