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Leaving an agency + umbrella co. legally?

I don't have a contract. But the agency and the company most likely do and the company would probably be sued if they just hired me without the agency. I do other work, in a self-employed capacity. I realise that the agent gets their cash from the client, but I don't get my full rate because...
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- Post #5
- Mar 18, 2009
- Forum: Accounting / Legal
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Leaving an agency + umbrella co. legally?

To anyone who can help. I got a freelance job at a blue chip client a few years back through an agency. That agency hasn't gotten me any more clients since then and I thus wonder to myself why I'm still paying them commission for a relationship that is clearly not a symbiotic one. I get 1-2...
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- Mar 18, 2009
- Replies: 6
- Forum: Accounting / Legal

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