Agent - Employer relationship question.

[sasguru]

I should really post this in Business, I suppose, but will probably get a better response here.
Here's the scenario: A pimp put forward a potential employee (permie) last year who I interviewed and offered a job which she accepted.
Then she changed her mind, citing the fact that her current employer had made her an offer she couldn't refuse to stay.
Now over a year later, she's come back and said she thinks she made a mistake and would like to work for me after all.

Question: Do I still have an obligation to the pimp to pay them their cut as they did the introduction over a year ago?

[EternalOptimist]

no

[Mich the Tester]

rtfc

[sasguru]

no

Expand?

Morally I guess I have to. And practically if they find out they could probably sue me.

[sasguru]

rtfc

It was a year ago

[Moscow Mule]

Morally, maybe. But WGAS about morals these days?

Legally, what do your engagement terms with the agency say? I doubt very much they have any hold over you a year after the fact...

[sasguru]

Hmmm I guess I need to somehow get the contract from a year ago ...

[minestrone]

That happened to me once. Actually they decided they did not want me then realised they had made a mistake. Agent never got a thing and the gap was 6 months, the agent found out later and never did a thing about it.

[Moscow Mule]

Hmmm I guess I need to somehow get the contract from a year ago ...

Just feed the agency a fake job. Et voila, T&Cs in your inbox in a jiffy.

[sasguru]

Just feed the agency a fake job. Et Voila, T&Cs in your inbox in a jiffy.

nah wouldn't do that. I do have some morals.
May pay them anyway, no skin off my back, and everyone needs to live.