IT Recruiters - been ripped off by client - how whould you deal with it?

[KentPhilip]

One of our clients interviewed 3 Contractors and rejected them.

We were suspicious.

We just contacted one of these contractors directly, under the guise of another recruitment company, and he is working for our client.

My TOBs cover this eventuality and say the client must pay 22% of the equivalent annual salary in this situation.

How would you play it?

Just fire in an invoice for 22%?
Confront him first?
Contact the Contractor again and get him to confirm the direct approach?


I presume some of you have had this before.
I guess if it goes legal a court would rule my 22% to be fair

You could tape a phone conversation with the contractor by you pretending to be a holidays company. Say, "Hello Mr Contractor, I am marketing my holidays to all contractors in ABC company. Can I just confirm you've only been with ABC company for 1 month..." and he/she will reply yes in all likelyhood.

You can play it back to the client to prove that they have been in breach of contract with you the agent. And then they will hopefully pay your fees.

I don't understand why contractors are saying you should not get any sympathy on this site. Agents are those who get contractors work, so are an essential component to all contractors businesses as far as I can see.

[TheRightStuff]

Obviously the wrong forum for sensible discussion about this - I thought a lot of recruitment consultants used this board. Will find one where there are more.

But less of the "shafted" and the laughing. The client has seriously f**ked up.

If he had not stolen the candidate from us (to the guy asking the questions about multiple agencies, the client rejected the candidate and then told us he did not want a contrctor any more. Cut and dried) then his charges to us would have been about 15%, around £1500 for this contract. He now has to pay four times that.

Who says the crime always pays?

obviously the wrong place because it's called contractoruk.com and not stupidagentsuk.com.

This is the right place for sensible discussion as long as it's a sensible subject. We don't give a tulipe if you've been shafted. We only wish it could happen every minute.

Will find one where there are more - probably in boots now buying hair gel and fake tan spray.

P.S Shafted, Shafted, Shafted, Shafted, Shafted, Shafted,Shafted, Shafted, Shafted,Shafted, Shafted, Shafted,Shafted, Shafted, Shafted,Shafted, Shafted, Shafted,Shafted, Shafted, Shafted,Shafted, Shafted, Shafted

P.S.S bothered.

[TheRightStuff]

Sue the bastards!

can you sue yourself?

P.S Shafted

[BA to the Stars]

P.S.S bothered.

P.P.S.

[Bagpuss]

Blunderer, maybe you should set RRH's legal team on them?

[TheRightStuff]

P.P.S.

P.I.S.S.O.F.F

[BrilloPad]

obviously the wrong place because it's called contractoruk.com and not stupidagentsuk.com.

couldn't we split the site into stupidcontractoruk.com and clevercontractoruk.com?

[Sockpuppet]

That's not underhand or sneaky in anyway at all.

My agency doesnt do sneaky and underhanded.

They phone me...I refuse to answer. They phone me 30 seconds later with a witheld number.

I mean come on!!!

[Diver]

One of our clients interviewed 3 Contractors and rejected them.

We were suspicious.

We just contacted one of these contractors directly, under the guise of another recruitment company, and he is working for our client.

My TOBs cover this eventuality and say the client must pay 22% of the equivalent annual salary in this situation.

How would you play it?

Just fire in an invoice for 22%?
Confront him first?
Contact the Contractor again and get him to confirm the direct approach?


I presume some of you have had this before.
I guess if it goes legal a court would rule my 22% to be fair

Hmm! Blunderer eh? - Apt, very very apt

[Euro-commuter]

I am not sure that this is the site to present this particular problem with. It will however bring a smile to most of the contributors to the board, so well done for that Blunderer

BTW tough luck mate, I hate to see competitors getting shafted like this