Agency forcing me to change umbrella - citing new regs?

[stuartianmac]

still waiting to hear back from them!! I suspect they are either deluged with similar enquiries or are stonewalling....

[stuartianmac]

sure i have raised it already. They weirdly kind of agreed (or are resigned to) the idea that the agencies are in control of whatever they deem an approved umbrella list, and if they aren't on it, they aren't on it. However, they did indicate that even if this were the case, i could still push back...

[stuartianmac]

i seriously doubt my current umbrella is non-compliant; they're basically the one everyone thinks of first when you say the words 'umbrella company'.

If HMRC are chasing the shady umbrella firms that are using loan schemes to minimise tax liability then fine, but my one is 100% not on that...

[stuartianmac]

got a weird message from my agency yesterday, saying that "because of new government regulations" they are reducing their approved umbrellas list, and so as my current umbrella isn't on this new list, I will need to change to one of their approved ones. Now my current one is one of the larger,...