Employment Agency

kildaremum

Say I was working as a temp for a company for a few months but was being paid by an agency and then the company decided they didn't need me anymore and let me go but then a vacancy arose within the company and the company advertised this new vacancy and I applied for it and got the job, would I or the company have some obligation to the agency.

Mrs OBumble

You wouldn't have any liability (unless you signed something which said you won't work for their clients for X months).

The company likely will have to pay the agency some fee, depending on what their contract with the agency says.

ciarano

Hi Mrs OB

i got a job with a financial institution a while ago.

I applied directly/Interviewed directly then when i got the job lo and behold i had to deal with an agency first a UK company then an irish one,???

Is this a tax scam?as i was well pis*ed off as i dont like dealing with agencies,

As it turns out i got notice and finished up a while later. when i contacted the company directly there answer was nothing to do with them as i was a contractor,

Northern Trust and Uber both apply the same thing even if you apply directly.

So my question is why do theu do this and can i apply again directly or are my blackmarked as having been a contractor previously?

Mrs OBumble

They do it because for whatever corporate reasons, they aren't allowed or don't want to hire directly.

Sometimes it's because there's a hiring freeze on permanents, because headcount is one of the factors that influences share-price.

Sometimes it's because they don't want to carry the redundancy liability on their own accounts for tax purposes: they'd rather pay a slightly higher rate to the agency as an operating cost, and let the agency be responsible for paying redundancy if that should arise.

Sometimes it's because the work really is temporary, but their policies don't allow them to hire temps directly.

And there are probably lots of other reasons I'm not thinking of right now, too.

I don't think that you'd get blacklisted because you apply directly. Many of the multi-nationals operate with a mixture of agency-workers and their own staff. But if the company decide that the only way they will employ you this time is via an agency, then really your only options are to accept that arrangement or to look elsewhere. Personally I'd accept it: agencies are a pain when applying for jobs, but not so bad once you actually work for them. In some ways, because they're experts on local employment laws they can be easier to deal with than multi-nationals who may try to apply overseas employment practises here.

ciarano

Thanks a million Mrs O'B

Might i ask one last thing Can i request my information held by a recruitment agency on file about me?