cell323
12-08-2007, 11:45 PM
If an Employment Agency helps you find a job at a company and everything goes well and they like you during the whole 90-Day Probationary period. Yet you still aren't being hired permanently by them and still have to deal with the Employment Agency. What can be done? Is there anything to be done at all?
If you are asking if they are required by law to hire you permanently or if there is some way you can force them to do so, no, they are not and no, you cannot.
You can express an interest in a permanent position and see what they say.
Morgana
12-09-2007, 10:57 AM
Companies hire people through employment agencies at a specific rate of pay. If they hire you, the employment agency loses its income and the company will have to pay a "conversion" fee. That can run several thousands of dollars.
Also, some companies hire temps to be temps. They dont have enough business year round to keep a person and rather than laying off a permanent employee, they discontinue the temp.
Those are probably the 2 main reasons why companies keep temps as temps even though they are satisfied with their performance.
cell323
12-09-2007, 12:28 PM
oh that's very interesting.. well i hope everything turns out well. THANK YOU!
Also, I have worked for large companies where I was arguably short staffed, but did not have permission to add "permanent" staff yet. The Powers That Be would keep telling me "maybe next month". I had no problem getting temp help approved (cheaper then massive paid overtime), and sometimes temp help were worth keeping, even with the fee to the agency, but until and unless I could get that "permanent" staff position approved, I had no choice but to turn over the temp (the company also had a rule that no more then 3 months for a temp). Sometimes adding new staff positions can get very political, even for very profitable companies.