Employment agency wont pay coz no signature from client

[Batista230]

Re: Employment agency wont pay coz no signature from client

Sorry Rob I am going to have to re-read through what you posted later time and time again as I dont understand it!
In basic English what dose it mean please?

[R0b]

Re: Employment agency wont pay coz no signature from client

It means that any agency who supply's workers to a company and the agency pays those workers instead of the company, then the agency cannot withhold the workers pay if the worker does not provide signed evidence from the company that he worked for during the period in question.

So in your case, if you have worked during that time for the company then the agency cannot refuse to pay you because you've not had a time sheet signed by the company. They could withhold it for a reasonable period of time whilst they made enquirers to verify when you worked but they can't withhold it outright.

Does that help?

[Batista230]

Re: Employment agency wont pay coz no signature from client

OK I now understand what you are now saying regarding "The Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003"
But as I said I signed a contract contradicting the opposite to that link!
Is there anywhere in the link/book that states the same rules will apply regardless of what ells has been agreed to?

Thanks
Batista230

[R0b]

Re: Employment agency wont pay coz no signature from client

Everything you need to know is contained in the section I've quoted, and to answer your question you can find it highlighted in red below:

An employment business shall not, in respect of a work-seeker whom it supplies to a hirer, withhold or threaten to withhold from the work-seeker (whether by means of the inclusion of a term in a contract with the work-seeker or otherwise) the whole or any part of any payment in respect of any work done by the work-seeker on any of the following grounds

What the above means is that it is unlawful for an agency to withhold or threaten to withhold payment that the worker is entitled to, even if there is a clause in the contract that contradicts this position.

[Batista230]

Re: Employment agency wont pay coz no signature from client

Everything you need to know is contained in the section I've quoted, and to answer your question you can find it highlighted in red below:



What the above means is that it is unlawful for an agency to withhold or threaten to withhold payment that the worker is entitled to, even if there is a clause in the contract that contradicts this position.

Is that quote suitable to present in frount of a judge?

[R0b]

Re: Employment agency wont pay coz no signature from client

Why wouldn't it be? It's the law