Real Staffing

[Bellona]

If it is worrying you / bothering you, give them a call and ask how they found you

[Old Greg]

Originally Posted by administrator
Have you used the email address on any toilet doors? They could well have picked your email up from there...


FTFY

At least you know where SY04's dead staring eyes come from now.

[Andy Hallett]

Real Staffing are part of the group I work for. You can either Pm me your email address and I will find out or there should be a address on the bottom if the email that you can write and request where we got the data.

[Andy Hallett]

Contracting via them at the moment. Good firm but they have 28 day payment terms.

GE

As Commercial Director for the group I am genuinely interested in how much of a problem this really is. We try treat all our contractors in a true business to business relationship and 28 day terms are reasonable B2B terms.

Although the terms are 28 days for Limited Companies the vast majority of our UK contractors are on weekly worksheets and we have no cutoff, do payment runs daily and our electronic time sheet system operates for over 99% of our active contractors.

My experience has generally been that contractors would rather be paid reliably than promised something better but paid less frequently.

[petergriffin]

Just treat it as spam and block them.

I'll go for that. Case closed.

[SueEllen]

We try treat all our contractors in a true business to business relationship and 28 day terms are reasonable B2B terms.

Although the terms are 28 days for Limited Companies the vast majority of our UK contractors are on weekly worksheets and we have no cutoff, do payment runs daily and our electronic time sheet system operates for over 99% of our active contractors.
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Some of us are used to getting paid by an agency within 7 days of submitting an invoice.

Some agencies seem to want to treat contractors as businesses when it comes to payment but temps when it comes to other terms with legally unenforceable anticompetitive clauses.

[Old Greg]

As Commercial Director for the group I am genuinely interested in how much of a problem this really is. We try treat all our contractors in a true business to business relationship and 28 day terms are reasonable B2B terms.

Although the terms are 28 days for Limited Companies the vast majority of our UK contractors are on weekly worksheets and we have no cutoff, do payment runs daily and our electronic time sheet system operates for over 99% of our active contractors.

My experience has generally been that contractors would rather be paid reliably than promised something better but paid less frequently.

As I said, I have never contracted with Real, but I don;t have a problem with weekly payment on 28 day terms. Usually I work with monthly payments on 28 day terms.

By the way, Andy, your Birmingham office staff always seem a pretty decent bunch. For pimps, of course.

[Churchill]

As I said, I have never contracted with Real, but I don;t have a problem with weekly payment on 28 day terms. Usually I work with monthly payments on 28 day terms.

By the way, Andy, your Birmingham office staff always seem a pretty decent bunch. For pimps, of course.

Would you be offended if I were to point out the errors in your punctuation?

[Old Greg]

Would you be offended if I were to point out the errors in your punctuation?

Not at all. But I see it for myself now, so thanks.

[NigelJK]

Main problem with S3 electronic invoicing is that it still requires the 'client' to sign off a time sheet and that this then requires a process at S3's end to 'approve' for invoicing, you can then invoice. I have no issue with filling in time sheets, even less when they are electronic - they benefit everyone. I do however take issue with the lack of the ability to issue an invoice directly to my client (i.e. S3) as you would in a true B2B relationship. Currently if the 'time sheet' is not approved in a timely fashion the date stamp on the invoice suffers, usually rolling over to the Monday next which then effects the payment date.
I also believe that the 'approval' process currently falls foul of some wretched tax legislation.