I’ve posted on another section my ‘beef’ with the agency but now down to the serious stuff. I worked for them for 10 hours driving and delivering. Fair play that not all was delivered but the agency and client knew what was happening. Agency told me this via email
He has not signed a time sheet, as there was a large cost implication to that day, to add insult we now have to pay for a sat nav holder that has gone missing.
Now they are also claiming that a satnav holder went missing even though there wasn’t one that I could see and I was using my own all day which has its own holder. I get the feeling that they are trying to blame me for this to get away without paying me, a satnav holder shouldn’t be much more than few quid.
Should I get paid for this day or do I put it down to bad experiance and forget about any pay from them.
Paul-H:
I worked for them for 10 hours driving and delivering. Fair play that not all was delivered but the agency and client knew what was happening
Paul-H:
Agency told me this via email
He has not signed a time sheet, as there was a large cost implication to that day
There seems to me to be quite a large part of the story missing
Paul-H:
I get the feeling that they are trying to blame me for this to get away without paying me
Has the agency actually said that they don’t intend to pay you or is this just your presumption ?
Anyway as DAFMAD said you need to check your agency agreement, it’s possible that there’s a clause that you must get a time sheet signed in which case I don’t know if they could get out of paying you or not.
what happened was that out of 7 drops I only delivered 3 as the rest were in an exclusion zone (7.5), which I wouldn’t break.
The ‘cost implication’ was said by the agency and when asked I was told quite frankly that I wouldn’t be getting paid for that day and should put it down to ‘experiance’. As i did deliver 3 drops i should have been paid up to that point at least, if they do want to do down that route.
to be fair trying to get the money will be costly in the courts
if you have the " bottle "… i would try my hardest to agree with another job for the same agency and at the same firm.
then go in as normal take the lorry out with the drops on, then go and park it up all day then take it back at the end of the shift and tell them to zb themselves two can play at that game
It’s a long story but in essence I was there for 4 hours but due to a breakdown there was no work done - then they sent me home. Like an idiot I forgot to get a timesheet signed and the agency wouldn’t pay me for the lost day.
I thought about challenging it, but I knew that I had more to lose doing that than a day’s pay, so I just chalked it up to experience.
An acid test is the question of who/what pays Income Tax on earnings.
If the agency holds your P45/P46, pays you and makes statutory deductions under the PAYE Scheme, then . . . . . . .
Your “contract” (such as it is) is with the agency - not their client. There will be a separate and unrelated “contract” between the agency and their clients under their own trading terms and conditions. None of which have any real bearing on, or with you.
Whether or not a client pays the agency is irrelevant to the arrangements between you and your “employer” - the agency.
Clearly, you need to apply the “real world” caveats mentioned above regarding the true cost to you in demanding payment.
Paul-H:
what happened was that out of 7 drops I only delivered 3 as the rest were in an exclusion zone (7.5), which I wouldn’t break.
The ‘cost implication’ was said by the agency and when asked I was told quite frankly that I wouldn’t be getting paid for that day and should put it down to ‘experiance’. As i did deliver 3 drops i should have been paid up to that point at least, if they do want to do down that route.
What do you mean, an exclusion zone? do you mean a weight restriction?
I wont stick up for some posters on Trucknet who expect a driver to pay for damage to a lorry, but a customer has asked for a driver to do a days work by delivering seven drops for them, the driver decides he can only do three.
