Agency (Mal)practices

[expat]

'business model does not include treating contractors in a professional manner'

Very strange comment. I thought that contractors were clients of agents?

No more than double-glazed windows are clients of double-glazing salesmen.

Contractors are just raw materials. Clients (as in "companies who pay agents") are the clients.

[expat]

it's a Giant Alien Lizard eat Dog world.

Just ask Churchill...


Particularly tasty when boiled by the way...

That's barbaric! But typical of the British.


It should be sautéed with garlic and shallotts, and finished with a red wine sauce

J. Chirac.

[DaveB]

No, No, No,

The Koreans know how to do it. Stir Fried, Sezchaun style!

[zathras]

ICTIS Guidelines

I wonder how many agents realise that when they call you with an offer they are governed under Guidelines from ICSTIS (Independent Committee for the Supervision of Standards of the Telephone Information Services - see http://www.icstis.org.uk/about/default.asp ).

Which includes such gems as...

The Employment Agencies Act 1973 prevents the charging of fees to persons for finding or seeking to find them work, whether employed or self-employed, subject to certain exceptions. The service provider element of the premium rate charge amounts to a fee for this purpose, and therefore such services will usually be in breach of paragraph 4.1 of the Code of Practice.
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In order to avoid being deemed misleading by the Committee under paragraph 4.3.1 of the Code of Practice, the promotional material associated with the services in this category should:
• correspond to genuine vacancies and/or opportunities, the existence of which should be fully substantiated on request,
• not be likely to mislead a caller as to the conditions, necessary qualifications or availability or extent of any potential employment or business opportunity,
• make no claims relating to earnings unless the evidence that such earnings are currently and regularly attained by existing employees or equivalent is readily available,

Guideline effective from 1 January 2004

• clearly state any additional expenditure, including any investments, that may be required over and above the cost of the telephone call,
• state the type of work to be done and its geographical location,
• state the number of workers required,
• state the basis and level of remuneration and, where known, the level of earnings that may realistically be expected.

[threaded]

Yeah, like most agents can even read that lot, never mind understand, and vanishingly unlikely to follow.

[Not So Wise]

'business model does not include treating contractors in a professional manner'

Very strange comment. I thought that contractors were clients of agents? - or is this an example of the great British Customer Service?

For agencys:

The one who hands over the money to them = Client

One who earns that money for them = Fool to take advanatage of if they can get away with it


Not how it should be, but it is the way how it is