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How about claiming for breakfast or evening meal if you work shifts?
I'm currently on an operations contract working alternate shifts of 07:00 to 14:30 or 14:00 to 21.30(this over runs quite often by at least an hour)
Total travel time is an hour each way (2 hours)
Just to clarify, would they pay the proforma invoice inculding the VAT straight away, and the invoice with the VAT number sent on later is just for their records?
I'm 2 weeks into a renewal and just agreed a new rate. Not the best way of doing things I know but I'm quite pleased with the increase. I've been sent the new contract to sign by the agency and I'm a bit uneasy carrying on using an umbrella which I've done for the last year, what with the...
I got payed today again on time. Agency payroll run on a thursday, Parasol has funds by monday, in my bank account via BACS on wednesday.
I think thats pretty good. My contract is self billing.
Also I sent a query to contracts on the evening of the 17th and got a response the following...
Got paid today (wednesday). Last week I got paid on thursday and the week before on friday. If it carries on like this Parasol will be paying me before the agent pays them, so I can't fault the increase in performance in speed of payment. The agent does their payroll run on a thursday.
On a...
I can only judge as I find. I got paid today on time. I'm on a self billing contract through a large agency.
Are the problems occurring only for people where an invoice needs to be raised?
Does anyone with a self billing contract have a problem getting paid?
I got paid today through BACS after being notified of the transfer on wednesday, which I thought was pretty good.
I also got a response to a web ticket from 28th April. However I did send it normal priority, and wasn't in a hurry for a response.
Things don't appear that bad. I'd agree with the...
Hi,
I'm a newbie. Never contracted before.
I've been out of I.T. for a few years but it seems my old skills are still in demand. I've a chance of a contract in operations/technical support on some old kit I used to work on in the nineties. Minis/small mainframe. The rate offered is £25 an...