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Temping with Clarity Appointments
Temping is a great opportunity to meet new people, work for various companies, in many professional cultures, gain new skills and offers valuable experience.
Some people temp professionally, enjoying the flexibility that this type of work offers. Others choose temporary work to remain employed during a time of unemployment due to redundancy, for example, or a step back into employment after a family. Watever your reasons for temping, you will find it a fantastic opportunity to ‘test the water’ with local companies. Temping can also often lead to the offer of permanent employment.
Why temp with Clarity?
Clarity Appointments is an independent recruitment agency specialising in accountancy.
Temps choose to work with us because:
- We are small and offer an individual, personalised service
- Professional, trained staff
- A high quality service
Temping with Clarity Appointments will give you access to the following benefits
- Up to 28 days paid holiday per year
- Access to a stakeholder pension
- Statutory sick pay
- An exceptional payroll service by a local, long established bureau with a speedy turnaround, including P45’s despatched in only 3 days.
What is the difference between temping and contracting?
Temping, or temporary work, is work based on a non-fixed term and can last anything from a day or two, to many months. Salary is paid on a weekly basis on an hourly rate.
Temping is a great opportunity to work in between finding suitable permanent employment and offers flexibility, the ability to learn new skills, work in different environments and meet new people.
Contracting is short term work, like temporary, but is for a fixed term. For example, to cover a period of maternity leave which may be for 12 months. However, a contractor will be paid direct by the company they are working for day to day rather than the agency and will therefore attract the usual company benefits of that organisation.
Pay & Benefits
An hourly rate will be agreed for the job before your start, depending on the skills and experience required for the assignment. This will often be a little more than the permanent equivalent and the more hours you work, the more you get paid.
Care should be taken when working ‘overtime’ since your agreed hourly rate will be paid for any hours over the normal working hours. Only in exceptional circumstances, when pre-arranged with the client, will an overtime rate be paid. Please check with your Consultant should you be asked to work additional hours for clarification.
How am I Paid?
You will be asked to complete a bank details form and appropriate tax form on commencement of your assignment. The forms should be completed promptly and returned to us for processing before you submit your first timesheet.
Payment for the work you complete is made one week in arrears, by BACS, direct to your bank or building society account.
Your payslip will be despatched to your home address, along with a new timesheet for completion the following week.
Tax & National Insurance
While temping you are liable for tax under the PAYE scheme and will need a National Insurance Number to be able to temp.
Some professional contractors choose to register as a Limited Company but you should seek professional guidance on this matter.
Paid Holiday Scheme
All temporary workers are entitled to paid holiday, offering a maximum of 28 days paid holiday per year. The amount of paid holiday made to you depends upon your earnings from bookings by Clarity Appointments in the weeks preceding your holiday.
How do I qualify for paid holiday?
You qualify as a temp from the day you commence a booking with Clarity Appointments. There is no qualifying period and all temps working to the PAYE scheme are eligible. Those choosing to work through their own Ltd Company do not qualify.
How is my paid holiday calculated?
Each week that you work for Clarity you accrue monies to your holiday fund, with the value calculated as follows:
Example
(5.6 weeks leave divided by 46.4 weeks worked)x100 = 12.07%
If you work 6 hours per week for 26 weeks: 6x26 hours = 156 hours
156x12.07% = 18.83 hours
You are therefore entitled to 18.83 hours paid leave after working 156 hours
How do I know how much holiday I am entitled to at any time?
A quick call or email to your Consultant will verify this for you.
How do I claim holiday?
You should complete a holiday request form and return it to your Consultant in good time.
The holiday year runs from 1 January to 31 December. Any holiday that is not taken by the 31 December cannot be carried forward.
How do bank holidays affect my holiday pay?
Unless you instruct otherwise, we will assume that, if you have sufficient holiday, you wish to be paid for your bank holidays and will deduct the relevant amount of holiday pay from your fund to ensure this.
If you do not wish to be paid for an approaching bank holiday, please let your Consultant know.
National Insurance Contributions
Clarity Appointments make your NI contributions on your behalf. You will be asked for your National Insurance number on commencement of a booking.
Statutory Sick Pay
SSP is administered on behalf of the government. To check your entitlement, please go to the following website:
www.dwp.gov.uk
Maternity, Paternity & Adoption Benefits
These are government schemes that Clarity administers on their behalf.
Please refer to the following website to check your entitlement http://www.dwp.gov.uk/
The Working Time Regulations 1998
These government regulations stipulate that you may not work more than 48 hours per week, although this can be averaged over a period of several weeks. You should advise Clarity Appointments if you intend to exceed this number of working hours in any week.
Pensions
Clarity offers access to a Stakeholders Pension Scheme through our Independent Financial Advisors.
Should you wish to know more, please advise us and we will provide the relevant contact information for you to speak with our advisors.
Referral Scheme
If you introduce your friends to Clarity, we will, after a qualifying period, provide you with gift vouchers of your choice. Please contact us for more information.
Working as a Limited Company
Before choosing to operate as a limited company, it is important to know whether you are working for that person in an employed capacity or in a self-employed capacity as an independent contractor.
We strongly advise that you read the government guidelines on the Inland Revenue website covering the area of IR35, ensuring you understand the regulations fully before deciding to work as a limited company.
The link to this website is as follows www.hmrc.gov.uk/ir35
Clarity Appointments will only accept contractors working as a limited company on presentation of the relevant M&AA and Certificate of Incorporation and once we are assured that the limited company contractors’ terms pose no risk of liability to four business.
As a limited company contractor you will be employed/engaged by your limited company/umbrella company directly. No contract of employment pr contract for services will exist between you and Clarity.
Other Important Information
Temporary Workers Conduct
Whilst you are working at a client’s premises through Clarity, you are representing our business and we expect appropriate and professional conduct at all times.
If your performance or attitude gives us cause for concern, you may have your assignment terminated immediately and/or Clarity refusing to work with you in the future.
If you have a dispute with a client or feel the assignment or environment difficult, please advise your Consultant immediately. It is important to us that you are treated with respect throughout your assignments and we handle all grievances seriously.
Leaving a Temporary Assignment
Should you wish to leave an assignment before it has reached its conclusion, please telephone your Consultant. We ask as a professional courtesy that you provide 7 days notice before leaving, wherever possible.
On leaving you will be paid any holiday pay outstanding and a P45 will be issued.
