Recruitment Agency Admin Fees

HellsBells33

Hello,

I have encountered 'admin fees' a couple of times now, when taking on temp work assignments with recruitment agencies, and I want to know whether these are legit (presumably they are, or at least have to be legal, for them to be in place).

It concerns the issue of agencies using a separate payroll company (sometimes called 'umbrella pay'), to process pay for their workers. Some agencies (not all), then pass on the admin costs to the workers themselves. Twice now I have found out AFTER I have signed up for work that there will be money coming out of my wage to pay the payroll company and I am not happy about it.

Does anyone have experience of this, legal knowledge or advice? Many thanks, in advance :-)

directdebiter

Umbrella companies often take an admin fee - and they normally sort out all your tax paperwork and you are an employee of the umbrella company. Everything should be transparent up front.

IAmWales

People Save your spamming has been reported to the forum team. Please stop it.

motorguy

People_Save wrote: »

Bespoke recruitment, worst agency I've ever experienced!
Promised job for at least 3 months caused me to relocate. Job taken away after 3 weeks along with all other new staff employed at same time as me.
They had bad communication, no proper wage slips. So kept in dark about lots of things.
Lied about lots of things.
wrongfully deducted money from my account.
Too many negatives to list. And they didnt care at all and were even insulting. They treat people like trash.
I guess thats why Bespoke is only a small less important recruitment agency.
I dont know whether I should blame the whole bespoke organisation or just the local wolverhampton office? Should I blame their director Ian Taylor since he was the boss of local branch and is responsible? Yet all the staff at Bespoke were not up to a good standard.
Bespoke were allied in same office with blueglobal and national travel, probably same company with different names and they all behaved negatively.
I know that Argos uses Bespoke, and I think it reflects badly upon Argos to use such a negative recruitment agency.
Anyway just wanted to say beware of Bespoke, Blueglobal and National Travel. Try to avoid such negative companies. There arè lots of better recruitment agencies.

I'd have an awful lot more respect for your opinion if either :-

(a) you hadnt created an account just to slag off Bespoke (and thus protect your own account) OR
(b) you had otherwise been contributing to the forums rather than just coming on here to slag off an organisation based on your own particular subjective experience.

On the face of it, you took on a temporary job role, and made life changing decisions based on a TEMP role. Circumstances changed with Bespoke and unfortunately Bespoke reacted accordingly.