Thanks mate, very thoughtful to give me much details.
To be honest, I don’t see that signing petitions about this is the way forward.
The way forward, is to refuse to be paid in this manner.
When I was in the situtuation, I attempted to sort it out by talking to the Pay roll company and the Agency.
The Pay roll company told me it was up to the Agency how I got paid, despite the fact that I was paying the Pay roll Company a fee to pay me and I had a contract with them to pay me CIS.
The Agency told me that I was treated as being employed as I was under supervision.
In actual fact I was not under supervision.
I had been tasked with constructing a Riser over 4 or 5 floors by the Foreman, and when I enquired about some of the construction details, I was informed by the Foreman, that I had more experience than him and should just construct it as I saw fit.
The only supervision I was under, was that I actually turned up and did the hours of work that I was claiming to be paid for.
The situation has changed.
Agencies that only paid ‘Umbrella’ will now pay CIS.
I can only assume that they started losing money as workers refused to work for them.
I recently did a weeks work at THFC for an Agency called BMSL, this is the same Agency who I did the 14 weeks work for I mentioned in my previous post. They paid me CIS.
On the same job for the same contractor (Imtech) there were agency workers being paid ‘Umbrella’ through another Agency called OHUK. I had already refused to work for them when BMSL offered me the work.
If everyone refused to be paid ‘Umbrella’ the Agencies would stop using it.
Unfortunately that is not happening, and now the ‘Umbrella’ scheme is spreading to other areas of work, no longer just found in the construction industry.