Resigning today... any advice?

RobertoMoir

good luck with whatever comes next

AntiLochus

LittleVoice wrote: »

Have you really negotiated not to pay an agency for six months or other indeterminate probationary period)? Or have you simply refused to pay an invoice they have submitted in accordance with their standard t&c to which you had originally agreed? Or are you making this up?

Have YOU ever negotiated anything? Or do you simply accept whatever you're offered?

LittleVoice

AntiLochus wrote: »

Have YOU ever negotiated anything? Or do you simply accept whatever you're offered?

Perhaps you can answer my question first.

AntiLochus

LittleVoice wrote: »

Perhaps you can answer my question first.

Why, what point are you trying to make?

LittleVoice

You suggest that a manager should be able to negotiate not paying for a service provided by an agency until maybe six or more months after the event. I find it hard to believe that an agency would agree.

DVardysShadow

LittleVoice wrote: »

You suggest that a manager should be able to negotiate not paying for a service provided by an agency until maybe six or more months after the event. I find it hard to believe that an agency would agree.

You could define "the event" as providing 6 months service. I think a company would be mad to commit to pay for someone turning up on the first Monday morning without actually fulfilling the role they were taken on for over some reasonable period,

AntiLochus

LittleVoice wrote: »

You suggest that a manager should be able to negotiate not paying for a service provided by an agency until maybe six or more months after the event. I find it hard to believe that an agency would agree.

Really? I find it strange that you think a half-decent manager would pay an agency up front without any contingency for the employee leaving within the probationary period.

Let's say I employed someone on a £50k annual salary- agency finders fee is 20% (it can be more but let's keep things simple).

I pay the agency £10k AFTER the employee completes their probationary period - which is usually 3 months.

Does this not seem like normal business practice? I wouldn't be in business very long if I agreed to pay an agency £10k on the first day of the employee's arrival (or before) and I wouldn't agree to terms that demanded this. There are plenty of recruitment agency's out there willing to negotiate on this.

LittleVoice

AntiLochus wrote: »

Let's say I employed someone on a £50k annual salary- agency finders fee is 20% (it can be more but let's keep things simple).

Hypothetical.

wurzella

I have to say, I work in the catering industry and the way it's worked with agencies I've dealt with is that I've paid half up front when the employee has started and half after the three month probationary period is over. The half that was paid up front is refundable if the employee leaves in that period though, more like a deposit. I haven't ever had an employee that didn't work out so I don't know how easy it would be to get that 'deposit' back again but that's the way it's laid out in the T&Cs.

AntiLochus

LittleVoice wrote: »

Hypothetical.

Again - your point being?