What is the legal status on cutting out the agency. Could you apply for a job go for the interview then a week later contact the comapny directly and offer services for a cheaper rate? Is there a legal point or is it just going the really upset the agencies and make you enemies?
2007-12-17 07:50:49 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Business & Finance ➔ Careers & Employment ➔ Law & Legal
The agency would be entitled to go after you - if you read the small print in their contracts, its all there.
2007-12-17 07:54:34 · answer #1 · answered by Sal*UK 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I work for a Fortune 1000 company and we almost always use recruiting and staffing agencies for our recruiting needs.
Basically, when an agency presents an applicant to an employer, the agency has dibs on that applicant for six months to a year (depending on the agency's policy). So if that employer were to hire that applicant within the time frame for any job, then that agency is entitled to its fee.
DO NOT try to get around the agency. For one, it will not look good on you because the company probably has a long-standing relationship with that agency. Second, the recruiting agency world is smaller than one thinks. And trust me, those recruiting agencies talk to one another. You'll burn a lot of bridges if you do this.
2007-12-17 21:23:02 · answer #2 · answered by je094 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think there is a legal problem here, as the company does not have a legal obligation to use the agency (unless there is a strict contract in place, which I doubt). - Just watch out for if you have signed a contract with the agency yourself, there might be a clause in there that forbids the kind of thing you describe.
Personally I think it will piss the agency off a lot.
2007-12-17 15:58:00 · answer #3 · answered by Robin 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I worked for a major international company.
If an Agency sent a Temp that we wanted to recruit (& the Temp was OK with that), we would pay the Agency a 'finders fee' of approx 1 years salary.....
Needless to say we did get Temps asking for work 'outside' the Agency, however cost was never the issue ...
2007-12-17 17:07:26 · answer #4 · answered by Steve B 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
actually if i'm not mistaken, the agency makes u sign contract stating that u can not apply nor be hired by the company ur temping for up or after a year..
but hell, who's gonna tell the agency
2007-12-17 15:59:33 · answer #5 · answered by Queen D 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋