Got a question on bookings. Been told that I’m booked at a certain client for this week, all confirmed with the agency and client. Monday all OK, called late on Monday to be told that i don’t have to be in on tuesday but rest of the week is still confirmed. Turned up for work today and guess what, no work. I turned down another booking for this and don’t want to be ■■■■■■ around each day with this client. How do i stand with this, do they have to pay me regardless or have I been well and trully done.
Did you have that in writing?
if you get paid a minimum for each shift then you get paid that for turning up.
though explain to them that you dont want ■■■■■■ about and that your turning down work to do these shifts, though tbh they wont give a rats bckside about that.
i was meant to have an assessment yesterday morning, turned up only to find out it had got cancelled last week it just turns out the agency forgot to phone me and cancel it. missed out on a days work for it aswell.
if you got your timesheet signed and dont get paid for today, find another agency as its up to them to pay you as it looks like the messed up,not you
even without a signed timesheet, i would still expect to be paid…in fact, i would be on the fone to agency making sure i would get paid
I’ve clocked on and off for today so I’ll expect to be paid as well as Monday, tbh this agency is pretty good and kept me very busy for the last few months.
Had that a few times got them to email me in the end or txt what i was booked out on
“Standing on the Stones”
I have never done work for an agency but if I did and was booked for a day, an hour or a week. I want paying. If I turn up for work, I am on pay.
We will end up like the dockers before the National Dock Labour Scheme. Dockers stood outside the gangers office hoping to be chosen to work that day, before that Winston Churchill opened the Labour Exchange where men would queue round the block hoping to find a days work, the alternative was to stand outside the factory gates hoping for a days work.
My own experience of Hull docks was 70 or 80 jeering men, jostling for the front to be noticed, hoping to be taken on, some of these were crane drivers, fork lift drivers, tallymen or general labourers who didn’t have a guaranteed job.
The agency are putting us back 100 years, yet they get paid
Wheel Nut:
“Standing on the Stones”I have never done work for an agency but if I did and was booked for a day, an hour or a week. I want paying. If I turn up for work, I am on pay.
We will end up like the dockers before the National Dock Labour Scheme. Dockers stood outside the gangers office hoping to be chosen to work that day, before that Winston Churchill opened the Labour Exchange where men would queue round the block hoping to find a days work, the alternative was to stand outside the factory gates hoping for a days work.
My own experience of Hull docks was 70 or 80 jeering men, jostling for the front to be noticed, hoping to be taken on, some of these were crane drivers, fork lift drivers, tallymen or general labourers who didn’t have a guaranteed job.
The agency are putting us back 100 years, yet they get paid
Nah, sorry Malc, you’re wrong there! The average working man who these days isn’t willing to fight for the things they want and moan about endlessly is really the one to blame. The tossers who sold all the good jobs for 30 pieces of silver in the good old days certainly played their part too!
Wheel Nut:
“Standing on the Stones”I have never done work for an agency but if I did and was booked for a day, an hour or a week. I want paying. If I turn up for work, I am on pay.
We will end up like the dockers before the National Dock Labour Scheme. Dockers stood outside the gangers office hoping to be chosen to work that day, before that Winston Churchill opened the Labour Exchange where men would queue round the block hoping to find a days work, the alternative was to stand outside the factory gates hoping for a days work.
My own experience of Hull docks was 70 or 80 jeering men, jostling for the front to be noticed, hoping to be taken on, some of these were crane drivers, fork lift drivers, tallymen or general labourers who didn’t have a guaranteed job.
The agency are putting us back 100 years, yet they get paid
Sadly history is repeating itself, it is now cheaper to employ agency than to take drivers on. when I started out 21 years ago the agency was the route to full time employment now it is the route to uncertainty and zero employment rights. I know good men who bend over backwards to accommodate clients and for what? to be cancelled the following day 20 miles into a 30 mile drive to the job. My honest opinion of them is not printable but when there is no work what is the alternative. All this under a so called socialist government.
If I’m told to turn up at a clients premises at x o’clock. I turn up and the client says “Oh, hello, we cancelled you yesterday”. I get them to sign my timesheet anyway, to witness that I’ve turned up.
I’d then claim that days minimum 8 hour shift pay from my agency, as normal.
I might also do a shift somewhere else for the same agency and be paid twice.
If that agency wouldn’t play the ‘paid twice’ game, I’d just call a different agency, tell them you’ve been let down, have they got a shift? If nothing is forth-coming, I’m paid anyway. If there is - BONUS 
I was on the books at 6 different agencies.
Initially I was on the books of about 12 to 15 agencies. I then weeded out the ones with bad pay or bad work or who gave me any work.
Play them one against the other.
from my experience most of agancy will pay some hours if they for got to ring you not always 8h, happend to me twice they offered 6h pay for job that I just didn’t do due to forget to ring me and because it was early I did manage to get job somewhere else and get paid, if the agancy is fair they will offer your pay specialy when they know you for bit