Working under your limited company questions

UK PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS FORUMS THE UK PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS FORUM (INTERACTIVE)
1

Do you present the agency with your own terms ?

If yes, how do you approach things like work cancellation policy and payment timescales ?

If no, do the agencies you contract with present their own generic terms for dealing with ltd companies ?

2

you will generally get 1 of 3 responses.

  1. I ain`t signing that, get out the door
  2. your having a laugh, followed by “get out the door”
  3. we dont recognise your Ts & C`s you must use ours, bend over etc

but if you have include the correct wording in your contract, it will supersede all other, and by being given/presented a copy they have been deemed to have accepted your terms"

3

peirre:
you will generally get 1 of 3 responses.

  1. I ain`t signing that, get out the door
  2. your having a laugh, followed by “get out the door”
  3. we dont recognise your Ts & C`s you must use ours, bend over etc

but if you have include the correct wording in your contract, it will supersede all other, and by being given/presented a copy they have been deemed to have accepted your terms"

:laughing:

4

middleoftheroad:
Do you present the agency with your own terms ?

Absolutely unless you want to get shafted more than they usually get away with.

If yes, how do you approach things like work cancellation policy and payment timescales ?

Similar terms to them, i.e below a certain amount of notice they’re liable for say 4hrs but make invoices payable weekly.

5

I started off by sending to the agency just a basic invoice.
After a while I added a small footnote to the invoice, “… no responsibility is accepted for …”
No one queried it
After a while I added further clauses.
As the agency continued to pay the invoices without querying them, it is deemed that the agency has accepted these terms by default.
If push-came-to-shove, which it never did, I could hold up the invoice and say here4 is the evidence

I agree with you that it would be better if we could have a formal relationship with established t &C. It might be worth contacting some agencies for whom you have no intention of working and present them with a T&C to sign and tell us about their responses.