Client asks me to work past end date of contract - Are you serious?

[kingcook]

Perhaps if you got back to the client and explained that coming to work without the agency agreement means your insurance is not valid and it therefore cannot be done. Of course, you would love to come in and help out but cannot unless the agency agree to it - your hands are tied etc.

Maybe that would get them talking to the agency and create a payable scenario for you - or it will not in which case you have what you have anyway.

Or perhaps just inform them that you're not a charity.

[perplexed]

Quick thoughts, due to ODing on medications due to illness.

1) Chances of not getting paid = business risk = good in a bizarre way. I guess.

2) Client taking piss = glaringly obvious.

3) The contract would be with agency to supply services at end client. Without the agent agreeing, there can be no contract, verbal or written that would cover those 2 days. And if you did, the agents could well be bastards - after all, you'd have negotiated with client directly. Bet you've a "no client contact" type clause.

4) Have I mentioned the client are taking the piss?

5) Keep Calm and Continue Invoicing. At least till the end of the contract.

EDIT:

Equally, the client are in no position to "ask" you to stay on. If they *insist*, well, isn't that an attempt to indicate control? If they genuinely ask? Your contract is with the agency, hence any request needs to be routed through them.

But let's be blunt. Agencies want money. There's zero chance they'd turn down free money for nothing, so I'd say it's almost a certainty client is extracting the urine.

[psychocandy]

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[TestMangler]

Yep. Spot on. Yet still client cant be arsed to contact agent despite many requests from me to sort it out.

Bottom line - no contract agency advise me that they wont cover it off - no brainer I aint doing it.

And, it was a no brainer five pages ago.

[FiveTimes]

Yep. Told the client this but at the end of the day they just cant be arsed/dont want to phone agency to sort it out.

I've offered to do if they just speak to agency.

I've got a feeling they know that if they can scam me to turn up they'll get some more work done and they wont have to pay for it. Otherwise, why wont they speak to agency to sort it?

Funnily enough, there is some important work scheduled for thursday/friday which I just heard of. Hmmm. Surprise that ;-) No money to extend but inconvenient if I dont show up for two days.....

Chances of me getting paifd for those two days appear to be nil.

I would just prepare your invoice and write off thursday/friday.

If the work is that important then they have to pay for it - unless its something you have done and they deem it to be faulty then they could ask you to fix it.
Start clearing your desk and look forward to a couple of days off

[borderreiver]

And, it was a no brainer five pages ago.

+1

[d000hg]

If I missed it in the long discussion...

a)HAVE the agency said you shouldn't do it?
b)DOES working outside a contract actually invalidate your insurance, if you have paperwork agreeing to a few days extra? It must be very common a contract has a tiny bit of left-over work to do which isn't worth a whole new contract, and a formal email extends the dates.

[psychocandy]

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[d000hg]

Fair enough, I'd missed a). It's one thing if they're vague, but going against them when they pay you IS daft. Shove the blame to the client on the agency, and vice versa

[VirtualMonkey]

Quick thoughts, due to ODing on medications due to illness.

1) Chances of not getting paid = business risk = good in a bizarre way. I guess.

beat me to it....isn't this massive + points in the business entity tests?