Timeline for Recruiter dodged my emails to rush through a contract-renewal that I wanted to renegotiate
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| Jul 1, 2022 at 20:58 | comment | added | Charles E. Grant | @XavierJ "That's how most contract employment works in the US" Needs citation. Your comment on "Assumption #3" is simply incorrect. Some companies work that way and are effectively sub-contractors. Other companies really are agencies: they find candidates for positions and get paid a percentage of the salary for the position, usually paid by the company, but the employment contract is strictly between the worker and the hiring company. I've worked in software companies where folks hired under both systems worked side by side. | |
| Jul 1, 2022 at 14:00 | comment | added | David A. Craven | @XavierJ I think this sounds like a contractor working with an agent that places them, rather than a cleaner. | |
| Jul 1, 2022 at 13:57 | comment | added | Xavier J | @DavidA.Craven That's how most contract employment works in the US. Easiest example is a janitorial service. The client doesn't care who the agency (in this case, the janitorial service) sends to clean toilets and vacuum floors, as long as the staff are minimally qualified to do so. I've been doing contract IT gigs on and off for almost 30 years. | |
| Jul 1, 2022 at 13:31 | comment | added | David A. Craven | @Xavier So in your eyes the agent is employing the OP? So the OP can just resign at any point and leave the agent trying to fulfil the contract? | |
| Jul 1, 2022 at 12:24 | comment | added | deep64blue | You are 100% incorrect, my agent works for me and can't agree a contract without my say so. | |
| Jul 1, 2022 at 12:08 | comment | added | Xavier J | @deep64blue No, that's quite incorrect. OP works for the agency. The agency secured the work and sought OP to fulfill it. The client pays the agency. The agency pays OP, whether as a W-2 employee, 1099, or a corporation. OP is not privy to any transactions between agency and client. | |
| Jul 1, 2022 at 12:03 | history | edited | Xavier J | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 1, 2022 at 8:10 | comment | added | deep64blue | -1 "There was no authorization needed by you to extend a contract between agency and client, because you're not a party to that contract." The agent is working for the OP and cannot make any commitments without appropriate authorisation! | |
| Jul 1, 2022 at 6:40 | history | answered | Xavier J | CC BY-SA 4.0 |