Elans 10 day cut off for payroll

[elan5000]

elan5000
Are there any Elan contractors out there who are working to the 10th cut off date? Are you happy with it if not please feel free to add your comments. I suppose you have seen by now the payroll dates for 2006. It seemes likly that we will be paid 5 days from the end of the month of April, if you work through a cover company.

[Lucifer Box]

If this is change to the T&Cs YourCo signed up for, don't agree to them. If it isn't and you still don't like it, vote with your feet.

[PerlOfWisdom]

I am and yes, I'd rather be paid weekly. Not happy with their margin either but since I signed up for the rate, I'll have to put up with it 'till the end of the contract.

[foritisme]

I guess depends on the client, according to my pay schedule from Elan the latest I get paid this year is for March - it reaches my account the 7th April.

I thought I had my timesheet for January sorted, but had a call from Elan on Tuesday saying that it hadn't been authorised and to get it sorted by the end of the day. I though it was nice of them to tell me, could have easily not bothered and paid me the following month.

The worst Agency I have come across is SPL, they pay 30 days after they receive the invoice.

[Snowman]

With Elan, it's not the cutoff date that is a problem but the fact that they insist an invoice has to cover exactly one calendar month and then they pay it 3 weeks into the next month. Thus you have to do your invoice at a certain time of their choosing and they do not pay you for 3 weeks. All the other agencies that I have worked through allowed you to invoice when you wished and they paid it within a week. That has always been what I believed agencies existed for!

[Dundeegeorge]

Ooh, ooh, I know what to do, I know what to do

With Elan, it's not the cutoff date that is a problem but the fact that they insist an invoice has to cover exactly one calendar month and then they pay it 3 weeks into the next month. Thus you have to do your invoice at a certain time of their choosing and they do not pay you for 3 weeks. All the other agencies that I have worked through allowed you to invoice when you wished and they paid it within a week. That has always been what I believed agencies existed for!

If you don't like it, don't sign the ******* contract, it's not difficult, is it...

[ratewhore]

The worst Agency I have come across is SPL, they pay 30 days after they receive the invoice.

That is business reality. Why should contractors be any different?

[Jabberwocky]

So the system is sh*t, everybody says so. And the advice - well that's business, that's the reality in which we live.

But it need not be that way my children. Embrace socialism, value people rather than wealth, care for others, show compassion, separate yourselves from the animal kingdom and prove that Darwin was right, we live, we breathe, we evolve. All that you need to change is yourselves. Come open your minds and gain your freedom.

[Dundeegeorge]

He's right you know

So the system is sh*t, everybody says so. And the advice - well that's business, that's the reality in which we live.

But it need not be that way my children. Embrace socialism, value people rather than wealth, care for others, show compassion, separate yourselves from the animal kingdom and prove that Darwin was right, we live, we breathe, we evolve. All that you need to change is yourselves. Come open your minds and gain your freedom.

Embrace socialism and you won't have to sign a contract, because you'll be sent to break rocks wherever the 'Bureau of Leisure' choose to send you, unless of course you're a signed-up member of the inner-party.

[Mordac]

That is business reality. Why should contractors be any different?

True, but whenever agents justify their margins, they usually go on about how they factor the invoices so you can be paid straight away. It would appear Elan are still factoring and yet they are keeping the dosh for 3 extra weeks. Perhaps they are having cash-flow problems themselves? *Hint hint* has anyone checked them out?
Otherwise you might like to try ringing them up and complaining. The more contractors who do that, the more likely they are to listen.