Reply to: Anyone else not been paid for a few weeks?

[CheeseSlice]

I’ve seen such a variation. From weekly invoicing with pay within a week, to invoice monthly with 30 day terms. Current one is weekly with 30 day terms.

The first invoice will always be the most important one to watch closely. Did the timesheet go to the approver or is their spam filter blocking it? (happens a lot for me). Did the client approve it? Be polite but direct with your client. Did the agent use self billing and is it actually working? Did the client receive an invoice? (not your problem but the agent may delay payment).

The other thing you might see is when the agency finance team announces their own payment schedule and seasonal disruptions due to staff holidays that they expect contractors to suck up even if it breaches the terms of your contract.

[cojak]

Here’s more advice.

https://forums.contractoruk.com/acco...nt-advice.html

[TheDude]

Hello, I have started a contract on 1st of JULY but I haven't been paid yet a singe penny
The recruiter from the Agency told me that invoices are usually paid on last Friady of each month, so normally I should have been paid the July time on AUG 26
How normal is this?
Any advice?

How normal is this?

Very - the payroll departments of these agencies seem to recruit directly from clown college.

[hobnob]

Hello, I have started a contract on 1st of JULY but I haven't been paid yet a singe penny
The recruiter from the Agency told me that invoices are usually paid on last Friady of each month, so normally I should have been paid the July time on AUG 26
How normal is this? It's my first contract and my first invoice, so I don't have any experience of how things work and what is normal and what is not, so I don't know what my proper actions would be
Any advice?

Do you need to submit timesheets for this role, to say how many days you've worked each week/month? If so, have those timesheets been approved by the end client?

[eek]

Hello, I have started a contract on 1st of JULY but I haven't been paid yet a singe penny
The recruiter from the Agency told me that invoices are usually paid on last Friady of each month, so normally I should have been paid the July time on AUG 26
How normal is this? It's my first contract and my first invoice, so I don't have any experience of how things work and what is normal and what is not, so I don't know what my proper actions would be
Any advice?

If you are working via an umbrella get them to chase up and advance payment to you.

If you are working direct - chase them up politely today by phone and emphasis that you will be passing the overdue payment to Debt Collection and Debt Recovery from Safe Collections (safe-collections.com) if it's not received tomorrow.

[archer100]

Hello, I have started a contract on 1st of JULY but I haven't been paid yet a singe penny
The recruiter from the Agency told me that invoices are usually paid on last Friady of each month, so normally I should have been paid the July time on AUG 26
How normal is this? It's my first contract and my first invoice, so I don't have any experience of how things work and what is normal and what is not, so I don't know what my proper actions would be
Any advice?

[Jarman]

...and I have just been called to discuss missing payments...

...and they called the wrong person and started discussing details of another contractor who is missing payments....

You can't write it

[PerfectStorm]

Don't wait for them to give you the signal to start job searching. Make sure you have a plan B you can turn down.

[TheDude]

...and I have just been called to discuss missing payments...

...and they called the wrong person and started discussing details of another contractor who is missing payments....

[TheDude]

...and they have missed another week.


Since the start of the tax year only a single payment was made on the correct date. This time payment got 'stuck' in their system. The same thing happened to my colleague as well.

[ensignia]

Perhaps for office temps and so on - real supplier companies work to something closer to a monthly/quarterly cycle. Who'd need it more often?

Real supplier companies

[TheDude]

Great news

did they explain what happened in the end?

No.

[PerfectStorm]

Paid today for four weeks.

Great news

did they explain what happened in the end?

[TheDude]

Those are rather tight terms! What's the situation now?

Paid today for four weeks.

[PerfectStorm]

Yup. I'm on that and was last contract as well.

Perhaps for office temps and so on - real supplier companies work to something closer to a monthly/quarterly cycle. Who'd need it more often?