Agency overpayment carry on, advice please.

[SparkyJoe]

Right, small problem.

I started a job about 6 weeks ago, though an agency, i spoke to the guy at the time, and because i didt have IPAF, (or some bull****) they wanted to pay me mates rates (9.50) anyway i needed the money, so i took the job, anyway they paid me electricians rate (like everyone else on the job) of 14 quid, - in hind sight, i should of said something but there you go.

Anyway they put me back down to 9.50 about a fornight ago, and i recieved a phone call on monday afternoon asking for the 650quid+ back.

so ive jacked, on there repayment terms id be on 5quid an hour after tax for a 47.5hour working week, which quite frankly is a ****ing joke.

My question is, Ive already lost my week in hand and monday, do you think they will try and bill me for the rest of it?

Why is knocking your pan in day in and day out so ****ing complicated.

 

[telectrix]

tell them to get stuffed. nice to hear someone get one over on the greedy bar stewards.

 

[mattmoo1974]

Fax them a copy of your Certs and a note explaining ELECTRICIAN!!!
Iv been over payed loads of times by agency's.
Adopt the poke it attitude if i was you.

 

[SparkyJoe]

Whats the poke it attitude lol

 

[mattmoo1974]

Your error your fault!!!

 

[telectrix]

it's not an error. they have paid you correctly. rate for the job. stick with it, did you have a written agreement for £9.50, or that you'd work as a mate, signed by you? i doubt it.

 

[mattmoo1974]

Tell the blood suckers they've had there earn outta ya

 

[londonlec]

Tell em to get lost

 

[Paul.M]

Did you need to use platforms to do your work? If not tell them to get stuffed, you carried out your job roll as an electrician.

So this agency demoted you from a qualified sparky to a mate because you can't use a cherry picker? They will try anything to make/save a buck.

 

[telectrix]

next thing will be a specific piece of paper to prove you can use a pipe bender without smacking someone in the face with the conduit. makes me laugh when all we had was a forklift with a pallet on it for high work.

 

[Cyberprog]

IPAF is cheap and easy though, I paid £250+vat for myself & my friend to go and do it at a place in Chepstow, and we did all 4 categories in a day (they started off umming and aahing that we wouldn't manage it in a day, then we finished 2 hours early, go figure)

 

[millwall ken]

tell them to get stuffed. nice to hear someone get one over on the greedy bar stewards.

As tel said but in not so refined terms should get the message across; agencies are nothing more than parasites. And the scum that support them and feed them are worse.

 

[VoltzElectrical]

i'll bet they charged you out as a spark to the client. Be worth asking them what they're paying for, and what they expected to get for their money. The client i mean.

 

[i=p/u]

what does employers gain out of agencies, ??? they could say tempory work... so they must gain something

 

[VoltzElectrical]

disposable labour. lack of responsibility. one fixed rate, with no employer's liabilities for tax and NI. Probably insurance benefits too.