Does anyone have a rough idea of how much a company would have to pay to the agency if they were to take someone from the agency on full-time? Hundreds? Thousands?
Thanking you.
If the agency worker asks the company for a job then no payment is due to the agency.
If it is the other way around then there is usually some sort of financial agreement between the agency and the company which in many industries is anything from £100 to £1,000 from the info I have - which is not much… 
ROG:
If the agency worker asks the company for a job then no payment is due to the agency.If it is the other way around then there is usually some sort of financial agreement between the agency and the company which in many industries is anything from £100 to £1,000 from the info I have - which is not much…
If the agency introduced the temp worker to the company as a worker they would have to pay a fee to take him on as their contract covers poaching the agency staff …
Payment …The Norm is 17.5% of the first years salary .
It is in the contract between the agency and the company…
The temp does not normally see this but in their contract with the agency it will state about working for a company they have benn introduced to.
Or an agreement that they will charge nothing if they keep usng a certain amount of temp staff.
( or a good regular customer… they may just give the temp as a gesture of good will )
No cost, unless you’re stupid enough to tell them.
from what i remember from a few yeas ago, the company had to use the “employee” through the agency for 13 weeks, then after that period, the “employee” is free to sign on for the company full time
As said if the agency introduced the driver to the company then the company would usually be expected to pay the agency regardless of who approaches who first.
The cost will usually be agreed between the agency and the employer before the driver starts working for the company for the agency.
pete-b:
No cost, unless you’re stupid enough to tell them.
I agree, why would you tell the agency unless you went to the company on temp to perm.
tachograph:
As said if the agency introduced the driver to the company then the company would usually be expected to pay the agency regardless of who approaches who first.The cost will usually be agreed between the agency and the employer before the driver starts working for the company for the agency.
pete-b:
No cost, unless you’re stupid enough to tell them.I agree, why would you tell the agency unless you went to the company on temp to perm.
Thats ok if you apply to a company you have never been sent to by the agency there is no charges …
Do a Google on agency temp to perm fee & you will find that the truth is out there . . .
The agency I did a lot of work for wanted to charge the company that took me on 1k, then dropped it to 500…then my company told them that they wouldn’t use the agency any more if they charged them 
pete-b:
No cost, unless you’re stupid enough to tell them.
Exactly!
Agencies don’t even deserve the sweat of someones arse.
When Reed Boardall offered me a position, I spoke to the woman at the agency and said I really wanted to take it but they wouldn’t take me on if the agency were going to charge. Even though it was their policy (Securicor Recruitment) to do the usual 13 week routine where the potential employer either kept you on with the agency for another 13 weeks or paid the difference up front, she said she would waive it as she knew how much I wanted the job. She went as far as faxing over a letter stating there would be no charge.
So whilst many, if not all agencies have an “introduction fee”, there’s usually some leeway in it.
One of my sons does I.T. programming and within the last two months one agency alleged he was working with a company which they had introduced him to, which he wasn’t and hadn’t done for several months; they were asking the company for £25,000 - and that isn’t a misprint!
The agency I was with wanted to charge 12 weeks, the firm told em to get lost if they wanted to carry on sending drivers, its was then agreed 4 weeks, just done my last day as an agency wallah, now I can slag them off.
All the employer needs to do is advertise the job at the Jobcentre.They should then ask the Agency worker to apply for the job via the Jobcentre and give him the job under those circumstances.The new employer hasn’t poached anybody that way.
Deathstar:
All the employer needs to do is advertise the job at the Jobcentre.They should then ask the Agency worker to apply for the job via the Jobcentre and give him the job under those circumstances.The new employer hasn’t poached anybody that way.
Irrelevent. The contract they have with the agency will still apply.