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    solicitors costs industrial tribunal

    Seems to me that this ought to be a warning that although you may win a tribunal you can still end up out of pocket. I am not sure that that is what is intended when you go to a tribunal for unfair dismissal. You would have thought that legal fees would be at least capped to a % age of the...
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    solicitors costs industrial tribunal

    I have a friend who recently won an industrial tribunal for unfair dismissal. She employed a solicitor to advise and help her. Unfortunately the solicitors costs were more than she was awarded, both came to around £3000. She is somewhat unhappy at the outcome and feels foolish that she did not...
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    placement fee repayable.

    You are correct. The address the employee gave was incorrect and had not been checked I guess. Plus we have never seen the two references required or the ID check which we expected and ought to have been sent within three working days of agreeing by phone.
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    placement fee repayable.

    I agree to a large extent in what David Griffiths said. However having found the 1973 Employment Agencies Act and the Conduct of Employment Agencies Regulations 2003, I find that the agency did not comply with either simply because the owner did not know that she had certain statutory duties...
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    placement fee repayable.

    I have just found the Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003. Regulation 17 states that an agency must provide and agree with the hirer terms and conditions relating to fees, refunds, rebates, and any proceedure if an employee proves unsatisfactory. The client must be...
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    placement fee repayable.

    It wasnt a fortune, £750. But it is the principle involved, we still havent received any references to check. The employee only lasted two days. The agency refuse to supply a new employee and refuse to refund anything. OK we took it on trust and that was an error but if you buy goods that are...
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    placement fee repayable.

    No, its quite straightforward. Some one suggested we use this woman who was starting up her own agency and we found it on facebook.When we spoke she said she did reference checks and so on so we thought it was OK. What I want to understand is where the law lies. I say the product/ person she...
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    placement fee repayable.

    It turns out that the lady who runs this agency has no terms and conditions, although she is puting them in place now. She had just started up. I was in a hurry to get someone started so we never checked the references. The employee seemed OK at first and I paid the fee on his first day of work...
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    placement fee repayable.

    Disappointed that none of you legal eagles can point me in the right direction. I assume that the 1982 supply of goods and services act applies. But how do you prove whether the person supplied was fit for purpose. The agency insist that he was and that we overreacted in involving the police...
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    placement fee repayable.

    I used an employment agency, run by a single person, to find a suitable candidate for a job I had . This person found me a candidate who i took on. After two days i had to sack the employee and for various reasons call the police. In addition the employees references were untrue as was the...
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    Deposit repayable

    I rented a commercial premises and paid a deposit/bond of £1500. The property company who owned the premises went bust and for four months after I paid the rent to a firm of accountants who were the receivers. My lease finished and I asked for my bond back. No joy. Obviously I should have...
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    Getting paid after judgement

    I did a subcontract job for a limited company that has one director/shareholder. He got paid for the job but did not pay me. He then took all the money out of the Company and applied to Companies House to have it struck off. I got that stopped at Companies House and took the Company to court and...
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    theatre production

    Thanks for your reply. I have looked at this a bit more and found something on the ICAEW website that says that this is about a case with ITV who were employing actors on contract and not deducting class 1 NIC. ITV was required to account for NIC on most contracts because the payments included...
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    theatre production

    Interesting one about NIC class 1 on self employed actors. As I understand it this does not apply where the actors were engaged to perform a specific role in a specific programme, engaged for a specific period of engagement and recieved a single total inclusive fee. Am I correct ? Otherwise we...
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    theatre production

    Thanks for the thought but sadly we gave hospitality, tickets etc.
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