Agency wont pay and now blocked my number

[tovraa]

Hello everyone,

First-time poster and I hope I am in the right area.

I finished my last contract on the 30th of December, and invoice as usual and sent it to the relevant people, usually I would have been paid within two weeks, now it seems like the recruitment agency was paid by the company I was working for but due to bad money management the recruiter has not paid me (two of their main recruiters have left already more to follow).

they owe me around 15K and I don't have ipse insurance.

What are my options?

This has never happened to me. I have called their "finance director" who has now blocked my number

I was going to start a small claims court proceeding and my accountant gave me dept collector numbers (I don't really want to use them)

Your help will be greatly appreciated

P.s. I did not want to mention the agencies name but I did do a search for them and only two results returned that was from 2013

P.S.S my wifi crashed so I hope this has not been double posted

Thanks

[cojak]

Hi tovraa

Take a look at this thread http://forums.contractoruk.com/accou...s-what-do.html

Basically call Safe Collections and let them sort it out, their commission is worth it.

[RonBW]

they owe me around 15K and I don't have ipse insurance.

What are my options?

Even though the horse has bolted, join IPSE anyway - I think there's a CUK discount code on the advert but I now hav an ad blocker installed so can't check that. You won't be able to claim on their insurance but I think you get a discount with these guys:

Basically call Safe Collections and let them sort it out, their commission is worth it.

[tovraa]

Thank you very much will look into both

[northernladuk]

Loads of threads on this here. We do get this from time to time and there is plenty of the same advice. Dunning the crap out of them with letters, signed for and all that. Quoting late payment legislation to show them you know what you are talking about etc. Going straight to a debt collector is further down the line IMO. Most of the time you can sort it yourself with a couple of letters and a bit of time.

Here they are... Have a read, there is some pretty good stuff in there

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=ag...ntractoruk.com

[SueEllen]

Loads of threads on this here. We do get this from time to time and there is plenty of the same advice. Dunning the crap out of them with letters, signed for and all that. Quoting late payment legislation to show them you know what you are talking about etc. Going straight to a debt collector is further down the line IMO. Most of the time you can sort it yourself with a couple of letters and a bit of time.

Here they are... Have a read, there is some pretty good stuff in there

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=ag...ntractoruk.com

It's worth notifying Safe Collections as they are helpful plus when you get to the "Letter before Action" stage you should mention in the letter you will use court and/or a debt recovery agency.

[NotAllThere]

I find registered mail to the directors' home addresses more useful than making phone calls. Especially when it comes to the "cough up or we're sending the boys round"* type communications.

* Taking legal action