Agency Charges.

LittleVoice

Poppie68 wrote: »

My daughter was placed in a 4 week temp job in May 2011. After 2 weeks they said they wanted to offer her a perm position but could only do it after the 4 weeks was up other wise they would have to pay a 'finders fee' or something of that nature. She finished the 4 week contract had a week off and was handed a perm contract. I can't see you being charged any kind of fee....but hey i maybe wrong.

The OP is an agency worker - so certainly the agency cannot try to charge the OP a fee. The fee would be paid by the employer, which the OP is not.

LittleVoice

Pricivius wrote: »

If the Agency are your employer, then moving you to a new assignment does not avoid the Agency Worker's Regulations and your accrual of the necessary 12 weeks. Therefore, this will not be the reason.

What do you mean?

An agency moving a worker from assignment to assignment is indeed a way of avoiding much of the Agency Workers Regs. The 12 weeks have to be in one job, even if the worker is actually paid by different agencies during that time. It is the weeks in the job which are counted, not the weeks with an agency.

Pricivius

LittleVoice wrote: »

What do you mean?

An agency moving a worker from assignment to assignment is indeed a way of avoiding much of the Agency Workers Regs. The 12 weeks have to be in one job, even if the worker is actually paid by different agencies during that time. It is the weeks in the job which are counted, not the weeks with an agency.

Apologies - I got distracted midway through my post and didn't realise I hadn't completed my point. What I meant to say was that moving you to a new assignment *with the same client* would not avoid the accrual and also that moving you to a new client after a few weeks or even 4 days is very unlikely to be avoidance of the AWR. Few companies would arrange their temp needs in blocks of 4 days to avoid temps accruing 12 weeks. Plus avoidance is strictly unlawful so Agencies are very aware of it and will not take such instructions from their client companies. If you seriously think that's what the Agency are doing, then question it, but I very much doubt it.