Do I have to be a director of a LTD company I contract under?

[Gene Woodman]

Thanks very much for all your responses.

[VectraMan]

Agreed, I've worked with other agencies without being the director. Very strange. They insist i become director prior to having contract signed.

The agent's probably used to everything being one way their tiny brains can't cope with anything slightly different.

Then again, an employee of a company might walk at any time without honouring the contract, so maybe they see that as an issue.

[SimonMac]

Is your credit rating as good as your typing?

My typing is gooder

[DirtyDog]

A Director's signature may be requested but it doesn't have to be you.

Even though I'm a director of the company, and sole shareholder, I get the company secretary to sign the contracts. That's what she's paid to do.

[DirtyDog]

When I first started contracting I was not a director of my Ltd as my credit ratign was not good enough to get a business back account, so my father set the account up on my behalf.

Is your credit rating as good as your typing?

[Damon]

A Director's signature may be requested but it doesn't have to be you.

[SimonMac]

Hi,

Just got a contract secured and would like to use my partners LTD company to work under. However, the agency is insisting I become a director and without me as a director they can't give me the contract.

Is this normal practice in contracting?

Gene

When I first started contracting I was not a director of my Ltd as my credit ratign was not good enough to get a business back account, so my father set the account up on my behalf.

[Gene Woodman]

Agreed, I've worked with other agencies without being the director. Very strange. They insist i become director prior to having contract signed.

Gene.

[DirtyDog]

Hi,

Just got a contract secured and would like to use my partners LTD company to work under. However, the agency is insisting I become a director and without me as a director they can't give me the contract.

Is this normal practice in contracting?

Gene

Normal practice is that you are a director, but you don't have to be. If they are insisted on it, and you can't get a contract with them otherwise, then you either walk away or become a director.

[Craig at Nixon Williams]

We have clients that work through their partners companies without being a director of it, likewise if you worked through an umbrella you wouldn't be a director of that!

Craig

[Gene Woodman]

Hi,

Just got a contract secured and would like to use my partners LTD company to work under. However, the agency is insisting I become a director and without me as a director they can't give me the contract.

Is this normal practice in contracting?

Gene