Agency scum wont pay!!!

[thesnowman]

the title says it all really

Agency scum bags wont pay, first time this has happened to me, sometimes they're fast, sometimes they drag their feet but in the end i always got paid

its been 8 weeks now
they've been avoiding my calls
they dont answer my emails


what can i do
what course of action can i take?

has this happened to any of you guys, how did you go about in getting the money that was owed to you

 

[mrloy99]

name and shame

 

[Knobhead]

name and shame

He's hardly likely to name and shame himself.

Something just doesn't ring true to me.

 

[telectrix]

i believe anything bad about agencies. some years ago, an agency phoned me with a promise of a well paid long term contract,
( qualified spark), but i'd need to be available the next day. i jacked the 2 week job i was on (it was pants anyway), and went for it. got to the agency only to be told that they'd send my cv to the client, and the job was for a "handyman that could 'do' plumbing and electrics, £8/hour".

 

[pennychew]

i believe anything bad about agencies. some years ago, an agency phoned me with a promise of a well paid long term contract,
( qualified spark), but i'd need to be available the next day. i jacked the 2 week job i was on (it was pants anyway), and went for it. got to the agency only to be told that they'd send my cv to the client, and the job was for a "handyman that could 'do' plumbing and electrics, £8/hour".

Yeah but you've never looked back since though mate

 

[Geordie Spark]

i believe anything bad about agencies. some years ago, an agency phoned me with a promise of a well paid long term contract,
( qualified spark), but i'd need to be available the next day. i jacked the 2 week job i was on (it was pants anyway), and went for it. got to the agency only to be told that they'd send my cv to the client, and the job was for a "handyman that could 'do' plumbing and electrics, £8/hour".

No problem to a man of your saliva - you know all about UFH don't you?? :laugh:

 

[telectrix]

No problem to a man of your saliva - you know all about UFH don't you?? :laugh:

right. that's it.your zimmer frame wheels are in the skip. :smilielol5::smilielol5::smilielol5:

 

[123]

To the OP...why was it only a days work? And why did you turn down other work for only a days work?

 

[Mike Blair]

I did days work as a labourer for dcs.... Never been payed only one day but crippled my back for a week that was 6 months ago....

 

[Farmelectrics]

name and shame them

 

[Knobhead]

The OP hasn’t been back with the full story and I get the feeling he won’t.

 

[thesnowman]

just started a new job a few days ago, been pretty busy which is why i've not been here
but i will try i answer some of the questions

 

[thesnowman]

Liverpool recruitment by any chance? Pricks owe me wages from before I left

yeah it was Liverpool recruitment, they sounds like the name of a computer brand

 

[thesnowman]

To the OP...why was it only a days work? And why did you turn down other work for only a days work?

i turned down the other job cause this job was closer, which would cut down on my expense and save time on commuting too

it was only a day cause the **** manager layed me and 2 other guys off at the end of our shift cause we never got much done

the thing is there was there was no supervisor on site at the time to walk us through the job from what i heard he left a few days ago cause he didnt like the job or manager, which i can understand why after only meeting with him a few minutes in the morning

he pointed us to one of the other lad who was working there and told us to follow him and he would walk us through with whats what and would explain what we needed to do
but he wasnt really having any of it, as he was not a supervisor or being paid decided to bugger off and left us to our own devices

non of the other guys were helpful so we decided to walk around the site and figuire it ourselves

by the time we know what needed to be done and made a start the day had already gone

from appearance it would look like not much had been done
and this was his reason why we were layed off!!!
but what can you do?

i would never expect anyone to get much done on there first day, as you need to now the score,induction, briefed, get familar with the site, know where to go in case of fire, know the people who you will be reporting to, where tools and material are stored etc
and thats pretty much half the day gone and then you need to get a walk through the job, know the circuits , routes etc so you can get a proper start the next morning

 

[thesnowman]

I did days work as a labourer for dcs.... Never been payed only one day but crippled my back for a week that was 6 months ago....

its always those ****ty small jobs that does the biggest damage

i did some labouring work couple years ago, dealing with hoarding, those sheets are huge and heavy, the other labourer that i was working with didnt lift it at the same time as myself which ending up with me pulling my back pretty badly

 

[Adam W]

i turned down the other job cause this job was closer, which would cut down on my expense and save time on commuting too

it was only a day cause the **** manager layed me and 2 other guys off at the end of our shift cause we never got much done

the thing is there was there was no supervisor on site at the time to walk us through the job from what i heard he left a few days ago cause he didnt like the job or manager, which i can understand why after only meeting with him a few minutes in the morning

he pointed us to one of the other lad who was working there and told us to follow him and he would walk us through with whats what and would explain what we needed to do
but he wasnt really having any of it, as he was not a supervisor or being paid decided to bugger off and left us to our own devices

non of the other guys were helpful so we decided to walk around the site and figuire it ourselves

by the time we know what needed to be done and made a start the day had already gone

from appearance it would look like not much had been done
and this was his reason why we were layed off!!!
but what can you do?

i would never expect anyone to get much done on there first day, as you need to now the score,induction, briefed, get familar with the site, know where to go in case of fire etc know the people who you will be reporting to, where tools and material are stored etc thats half the day gone and then get a walk through the job so you can get a proper start the next morning

Is that why the agency are withholding payment?

 

[thesnowman]

Is that why the agency are withholding payment?

the client ie the **** manager wont pay, therefore the agency scum wont pay either

but stated on the gov.uk site , agency workers must be paid by the agency for there time regardless if the work was not to there liking

 

[Guest77]

Bollox, a company won't lose sleep over a 160-200 notes, your hiding something, you may have some of the forum fooled here, but some of us know you are talking carp.

 

[Knobhead]

Bollox, a company won't lose sleep over a 160-200 notes, your hiding something, you may have some of the forum fooled here, but some of us know you are talking carp.

Like you Mike, I'm sure he is talking crarp.

 

[Adam W]

It sounds plausible to me - I've had a couple of bad experiences of short term agency jobs.

One job was just down the road from me. I turned up looking for the main electrical contractor and just met one other spark who was in the same position as me - sent there by the agency. The only other guy on site, the builder, had told the agency he wanted one spark but was sent two. At the end of the week the agency would only pay me mates rates because the builder thought we knew each other and always worked as a pair.

Another time I spent a day checking air conditioning filters in an office block. I had agreed with the agency I wouldn't pay the umbrella company margin fee, but the umbrella company denied all knowledge of this. I finally got paid (minus the margin fee) 7 weeks later, then got the margin fee back after I went into the agency office. "Ship Shape." "Sh** Shape" more like.

I'm not sure I'd ever agree to any more short term agency jobs. It must be hard enough for them to find workers for these jobs without getting a reputation for stitching people up.

 

[Knobhead]

It must be hard enough for them to find workers for these jobs without getting a reputation for stitching people up.

And that is why I’m so suspicious of the OP claims.

 

[Adam W]

And that is why I’m so suspicious of the OP claims.

Agencies do stitch people up though.

 

[Knobhead]

Don’t you check T&C’s first?

 

[Adam W]

You could spend half your life checking T&Cs, then you wouldn't get any work done.
This is one of the problems with starting work for a new agency which you've never heard of - the idea is you do the work and they pay you, but the unscrupulous agencies mess you about and withhold payment.

 

[Knobhead]

I’ve worked for an agency once and later our company hired from the same agency many times. The first thing I would say to anyone we hired was if you have any problems, see me and I’ll sort it out. Nine times out of ten the problems were due to time sheets, either being submitted late or a discrepancy with our submitted records.

Never once as far as I know did the agency try to defraud someone deliberately. In truth they were late paying one lad several times, he tried to pull a fast one but didn’t know we submitted records. He tried it on twice and was dragged in to my office by the agency to explain himself. He didn’t last long with either us or the agency.

Bad practice doesn’t reflect well on either the agency or the company and so is avoided.

That being said, it was a specialist agency for engineering staff only.

 

[Risteard]

Although I don't doubt that it could and does happen, I have worked for agencies (six in total) on a number of occasions in the past - including a sixteen month stint at one time - I have never had any problem with being paid correctly by them.