Timesheet disagreement with client - legal situation?

[psychocandy]

Client does not disagree with the hours worked but is disagreeing that they agreed to shift work that day. Basically, they did a rota (and I have email to prove it). All the planned work for this week went well and, it seems at some point, they decided they wanted to save a bit of money by not having contractors working 12 hours on the last day. But told no-one.

4 or 5 of us in the situation now where we worked 12 hours. I would gladly have gone home early on the Friday - last thing I wanted was to stay late and then drive home.

Contract is via agency who to be fair have been very good so far. Not the first problem with this contract. Not like me to stick up for agencies.

At the moment, client is refusing to authorise the time for that day. Not cool.

With no signed timesheet where do I stand? Only talking about 1/2 days pay here but still its taking the piss.

[SimonMac]

Client does not disagree with the hours worked but is disagreeing that they agreed to shift work that day. Basically, they did a rota (and I have email to prove it). All the planned work for this week went well and, it seems at some point, they decided they wanted to save a bit of money by not having contractors working 12 hours on the last day. But told no-one.

4 or 5 of us in the situation now where we worked 12 hours. I would gladly have gone home early on the Friday - last thing I wanted was to stay late and then drive home.

Contract is via agency who to be fair have been very good so far. Not the first problem with this contract. Not like me to stick up for agencies.

At the moment, client is refusing to authorise the time for that day. Not cool.

With no signed timesheet where do I stand? Only talking about 1/2 days pay here but still its taking the piss.

Opted In or Opted Out?

[northernladuk]

Client does not disagree with the hours worked but is disagreeing that they agreed to shift work that day. Basically, they did a rota (and I have email to prove it). All the planned work for this week went well and, it seems at some point, they decided they wanted to save a bit of money by not having contractors working 12 hours on the last day. But told no-one.

4 or 5 of us in the situation now where we worked 12 hours. I would gladly have gone home early on the Friday - last thing I wanted was to stay late and then drive home.

Contract is via agency who to be fair have been very good so far. Not the first problem with this contract. Not like me to stick up for agencies.

At the moment, client is refusing to authorise the time for that day. Not cool.

With no signed timesheet where do I stand? Only talking about 1/2 days pay here but still its taking the piss.

Cut out or not cut out?

[psychocandy]

Opted In or Opted Out?

In.

[SimonMac]

Cut out or not cut out?

Thats a no brainer

[SimonMac]

In.

Then you should know the answer to the question already

[Ticktock]

In.

Then invoice and let the agent sort it out. You may want to explain to the agency the situation, otherwise they'll come back to you with "Can you get the timesheet signed?" and you'll just have to explain then.

Don't expect them to understand the implications of being "opted in" (I hate that phrase) until you spell it out to them.

[psychocandy]

Then you should know the answer to the question already

I'll have to check but I always thought the opted in only protected you in the event of HAVING a signed timesheet?

[psychocandy]

Then invoice and let the agent sort it out. You may want to explain to the agency the situation, otherwise they'll come back to you with "Can you get the timesheet signed?" and you'll just have to explain then.

Don't expect them to understand the implications of being "opted in" (I hate that phrase) until you spell it out to them.

That is the plan for now. But, even though this agency is fairly good, I can't see they're going to want to upset their client by kicking off on my behalf for a few quid.

I think the client knows this and has got what they want and is well aware of it.

Could be worse. Direct contractors here got told that because of admin issues there was delay of a few weeks with payment from last month. Yeh right - more like deliberate cashflow management.

[Ticktock]

That is the plan for now. But, even though this agency is fairly good, I can't see they're going to want to upset their client by kicking off on my behalf for a few quid.

I think the client knows this and has got what they want and is well aware of it.

Could be worse. Direct contractors here got told that because of admin issues there was delay of a few weeks with payment from last month. Yeh right - more like deliberate cashflow management.

It doesn't matter if they want to take it up with the client or not - they still have to pay you if you did the work. It's their choice to either suck it up, or pass that cost along to the client.