Agency Pay Question

tryfan

Hi all
to cut a story short, I started last year working via an agency for a company, temp to permanent. I am being made permanent this week :j. There are other staff there who work for other agencies for approx the same pay as I was on except when they worked weekends they were being paid 1.5 and 2x hourly rate for saturdays and sundays respectively, I was only being paid single time. This came about during a chat to the manager of the company during my discussions to become permaent. We work 3 out of 4 weekends, so it adds up to a fair amount since last November when I started. The manager says that all the temp staff were paid this weekend bonus, but as I am the only person from my agency, perhaps its due to the contract they had with my agency.

My question being, of course, what is the best way to find out if I should of been paid the extra rate and how to go about reclaiming it?

its a national agency, no names as its not fair to slag off before knowing all the facts.

Many Thanks

Tryfan

Notmyrealname

The only way is to ask your agency. Your contract is with the agency, not the place you were sent to. Any pay agreement is between you and them. As an agency worker I've been at places with 3 or 4 agencies in and people have been paid different rates for the same job.

InsideInsurance

The only way is to read your contract, it will state the rates and if there is any weekend/ unsociable hours rate.

The rate the agency may have been paid to find and supply you is of almost no relevance to what you get.

Now, occasionally a client will be interested in what their temps are getting from their agency because income is linked to staff engagement. Given you are off their books now it is highly unlikely the client is going to feel so strongly about it that they tell the agency to back date the pay otherwise their removed from the supplier list which is your only real hope.

Personally, congratulations, you've got what you wanted. Forget about the past, you'll find different salaries for the same job is exceptionally common.

Russe11

Had a simular problem years ago, other worker where getting shifts at 1.5 on sat and 2.0 on sundays for 12hours for 8 hours work, all the people working from our agency where just getting the worked hours.

We made our inquires to why we where not getting the same deal, turns out the agency where instructed to bill the contractor for the hours but they where not passing it on... I got paid up to date whiles others didn't, the agency sacked us all off the following week and got new workers in that wouldn't of known any different, apart from one of my mates got on the same job and the same thing happened a few weeks later.

Turns out the whole site was on the fiddle with the contractors and decent sums off money where being skimmed off the government contract.

Lesson to learn is always agree terms you are happy with before you start work and what anyone else gets in neither here nor there if you are happy with the terms you get.