Paging Contractors

The agency I am working through at the moment (and have been for 6
months or so at the moment) are now asking for a copy of my passport to
prove I am entitled to work in the UK...

Now, as I work for a limited company, and the agency have engaged my
limited co to supply a contractor (unnamed) for a job, I am loth to send
them a copy...

Anyone else had this lately? I think it's a bloody cheek.

 

Yep, I had to a couple of months ago. Don't think its that unusual.

 

mups said:

Didn't you tell 'em to feck off?

I have.

 

No because

a) I wanted the job
b) They put me through the security clearance stuff.

I'm now allowed access to Secret documents with the occasional sideways
glance at Top Secret.

 

mups said:

I've already got the job (been doing it for too bloody long).

Already had that a few years ago.

I'm not allowed to tell you what I can see (according to the bit of
paper I signed, or didn't depending on who's asking).

 

geoff said:

But there is the rub - they are not employing me. They are buying a
service from my limited company. That's a very important point and a
lot of tax implications hang on that fact.

 

On Thu, 06 May 2004 23:35:43 +0100, "Simon Atkinson

That's not important right now.

When they send you out cockle-picking, they need to know that you're
entitled to the lifeboat service and a Union Flag on your box.

 

Pip said:

That's too skilled for the likes of me...

 

geoff said:

Mine is addressed to 'The Director' of my limited co and asks for a copy
of this unnamed persons passport...

Hmmmmm... I wonder if the passport of a non-exec might do? It doesn't
say it wants the passport of the person doing the work.

 

I almost got one too, connected with that.

 

In mups triped:

Passport is one of the allowed forms of proof of ID for the security
clearance check so showing for this reason is valid - the OP seemed to imply
that it wasn't for this reason, just the agency checking entitlement to work
in the UK.

 

Cane said:

You've seen me... You think any photo of me is going to be pretty?

 

Andy Ashworth said:

Yup. Remember, I don't work for the agency, I work for my limited
company.

 

k said:

As long as they pay my invoices... Which they are sort of saying they
wont.

Oddly the one I needed the clearance for was nothing to do with defence/
weaponry or anything like it.

11

 

It wasn't a death threat. It was a Not-That-Specific threat.

 

It was a "You won't know when, or where, or why, or who..."

A bit like a Manhatten Transfer track actually.

 

geoff said:

A member of staff from my limited company is occasionally required to
visit the clients site, it's fair to say.

 

geoff said:

In a nutshell...

 

What's the point in that then?

 

No, I don't mean threatening Porl, I mean the threat itself. If you're
going to off somebody, wouldn't you want them to know who and why, so
as to "get your own back" or "teach them a lesson"?