Just tell them to **** off because the contract has been frustrated by subsequent impossibility.
Why make life complicated for yourself?
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Originally posted by lorakeen View PostI contacted the client, no answer
I am probably better off, just need to walk away from dodgy contracts from the moment they start smelling bad.
Thank you all for the advice
Actually, you could spin this around and say the only dodgy thing here you didn't clarify the Opt out situation clearly at the time but you've worked the days so should be due the pay.
In many cases we've seen like this they try and with-hold the last payment or not sign days because they think it's in lieu of the money they are owed for breach but this is illegal. They must pay you first and then come after you for breach.
You've got to do some dunning here. Keep on at the client, maybe get a letter from your solicitor for 20 quid or so. As much as the client is being an arse their legal department won't like them not signing timesheets as they are obliged to do and they will fold. Keep writing letters, emailing, calling and keep a record and eventually they will have to respond.
One question though. The last 2 days. Did you work full days or were you a bit of a mess at the time. Did you really put two solid days work in that any client would happily pay or was it a very topsy turvey two days?
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Originally posted by northernladuk View PostThen contact the client and ask them to send confirmation you worked those two days to the agent.
I am probably better off, just need to walk away from dodgy contracts from the moment they start smelling bad.
Thank you all for the advice
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Originally posted by fatJock View PostGod NLUK you're getting soft these days. In times gone by it'd have been YNCOTBAC.
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God NLUK you're getting soft these days. In times gone by it'd have been YNCOTBAC.
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Originally posted by lorakeen View PostI have just asked me to pay me for the last 2 days, and they are refusing because I do not have a signed timesheet. I was on site, and I have a right to expect to be paid under the regulations. (I guess I didn't express myself clearly earlier).
They can choose to sue me for missing out on their fee, but they have dragged me along for 10 days waiting for this contract to be signed and caused me to miss out on better opportunities, only to get there and find out the position was not what I was told it would be. I can prove they have acted in bad faith on this matter.
According to my advisor, if they sue me I can return the favor and sue them for causing me loss of income- their dragging on and deceit costed me a significantly better opportunity.
You've got bigger problems so forget all the suing businesses. It won't come to that. Just agent bullying. If you want the two days then contact the client get confirmation you worked to the agent and get paid and move on to the other issues that are infinitely more important than two days pay.
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Originally posted by SueEllen View PostNope - you should have walked out immediately if the role was unacceptable.
Also it isn't rare for some roles to have delayed starts of 2-4 weeks due to paperwork being signed.
I did not quit, just informed them I had to go.
I am sorry if I am not very coherent, I have had a very bad time in the past two weeks and my head doesn't seem to work right.
Thank you so much for all your help and advice, it is greatly appreciated
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Originally posted by lorakeen View PostI have just asked me to pay me for the last 2 days, and they are refusing because I do not have a signed timesheet. I was on site, and I have a right to expect to be paid under the regulations. (I guess I didn't express myself clearly earlier).
They can choose to sue me for missing out on their fee, but they have dragged me along for 10 days waiting for this contract to be signed and caused me to miss out on better opportunities, only to get there and find out the position was not what I was told it would be. I can prove they have acted in bad faith on this matter.
According to my advisor, if they sue me I can return the favor and sue them for causing me loss of income- their dragging on and deceit costed me a significantly better opportunity.
Also it isn't rare for some roles to have delayed starts of 2-4 weeks due to paperwork being signed.
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Originally posted by northernladuk View PostI'm not seeing how the regs would be a factor here. You are in breach of contract (from what I can see) for terminating the contract early against the terms of the contract. If that is the case then yes the agency can sue you for lost commission.
What do you think the regs are protecting you from?
FWIW they won't sue you. It's just not worth the time and effort. They'll try bully you into paying but they won't take it legal. Just keep putting them off and it's most likely going to go away.
They can choose to sue me for missing out on their fee, but they have dragged me along for 10 days waiting for this contract to be signed and caused me to miss out on better opportunities, only to get there and find out the position was not what I was told it would be. I can prove they have acted in bad faith on this matter.
According to my advisor, if they sue me I can return the favor and sue them for causing me loss of income- their dragging on and deceit costed me a significantly better opportunity.
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I'm not seeing how the regs would be a factor here. You are in breach of contract (from what I can see) for terminating the contract early against the terms of the contract. If that is the case then yes the agency can sue you for lost commission.
What do you think the regs are protecting you from?
FWIW they won't sue you. It's just not worth the time and effort. They'll try bully you into paying but they won't take it legal. Just keep putting them off and it's most likely going to go away.
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Originally posted by SueEllen View PostIs there any thing in your contract that alludes to this? You need to clarify this as well as using the opt-out.
Oh and next time there is a family death tell them you are taking x weeks off starting immediately rather than give notice. Lots of agencies will then bin you. If they then try and say you owe them money, you can have a field day if you are telling the truth.
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Originally posted by lorakeen View PostI am being told that I am in breach of the following:
6.2. Employment Business shall not pay any fees to Contractor (a) unless an invoice has been properly submitted by Contractor in accordance with clause 6.1 above and (b) unless and until Client has authorised or signed the relevant time recording process and (c) the hours claimed are true and accurate.
13.2. Where Contractor or Representative is in breach of this Agreement which results in Client terminating the agreement between Employment Business and Client or terminating the Assignment, Contractor agrees, without prejudice to any other remedy of Employment Business, to indemnify Employment Business for any loss of Employment Business’s fee that would have been charged to Client relating to the remaining period of the Assignment.
However this is in direct opposition to Regulation 12. As I have not opted out, it would appear that this does not apply to me.
Prohibition on employment businesses withholding payment to work-seekers on certain grounds
12. An employment business shall not, in respect of a work-seeker whom it supplies to a hirer, withhold or threaten to withhold from the work-seeker (whether by means of the inclusion of a term in a contract with the work-seeker or otherwise) the whole or any part of any payment in respect of any work done by the work-seeker on any of the following grounds—
(a)non-receipt of payment from the hirer in respect of the supply of any service provided by the employment business to the hirer;
(b)the work-seeker’s failure to produce documentary evidence authenticated by the hirer of the fact that the work-seeker has worked during a particular period of time, provided that this provision shall not prevent the employment business from satisfying itself by other means that the work-seeker worked for the particular period in question;
(c)the work-seeker not having worked during any period other than that to which the payment relates; or
(d)any matter within the control of the employment business.
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Originally posted by SueEllen View PostIs there any thing in your contract that alludes to this? You need to clarify this as well as using the opt-out.
6.2. Employment Business shall not pay any fees to Contractor (a) unless an invoice has been properly submitted by Contractor in accordance with clause 6.1 above and (b) unless and until Client has authorised or signed the relevant time recording process and (c) the hours claimed are true and accurate.
13.2. Where Contractor or Representative is in breach of this Agreement which results in Client terminating the agreement between Employment Business and Client or terminating the Assignment, Contractor agrees, without prejudice to any other remedy of Employment Business, to indemnify Employment Business for any loss of Employment Business’s fee that would have been charged to Client relating to the remaining period of the Assignment.
However this is in direct opposition to Regulation 12. As I have not opted out, it would appear that this does not apply to me.
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Originally posted by lorakeen View PostThank you for this. The contract I was in was a very bad one, not only it took 10 days to start which was a waste of my time but the company was quite a huge mess.
The agency claims that since I ended the contract early due to a death in the family that forced me to leave on short notice, I actually owe them money for the loss of fee they would have incurred on my contract.
Oh and next time there is a family death tell them you are taking x weeks off starting immediately rather than give notice. Lots of agencies will then bin you. If they then try and say you owe them money, you can have a field day if you are telling the truth.Last edited by SueEllen; 23 June 2017, 11:47.
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