Hiring Employees from Contractors
preider
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We use a contract cleaning firm in our plant. As is typical with this type of contractor, their employees are paid on a very low scale, and have no employee benefits. Naturally, this keeps our cost of using this contractor down. However, their employees see what our work environment is like, and talk to our employees about pay and benefits, and many of them would like to come to work for us.
We made an agreement a couple of years ago (before my time here) that we wouldn't "pirate" their employees. When I started here, I was told that if I was approached by one of their people about applying, I was to tell them that I couldn't accept an application until they had quit working for the contractor.
This worked well with the first of their employees who came to me. However, a second one apparently lied to me and told me that she'd already turned in her notice to the contractor. Now, the contractor is miffed that we've offered her a position.
The only thing I can think of to do to prevent this in the future is to tell the contractor's employees that I have to actually contact the contractor to let them know that one of their employees wants to apply here. However, this may cause problems between the contractor and the employee, cause us to lose a qualified applicant, and deny the person the opportunity for better pay, benefits and working conditions.
Do any of you have similar issues with hiring employees of contractors?:ball and chain:
We made an agreement a couple of years ago (before my time here) that we wouldn't "pirate" their employees. When I started here, I was told that if I was approached by one of their people about applying, I was to tell them that I couldn't accept an application until they had quit working for the contractor.
This worked well with the first of their employees who came to me. However, a second one apparently lied to me and told me that she'd already turned in her notice to the contractor. Now, the contractor is miffed that we've offered her a position.
The only thing I can think of to do to prevent this in the future is to tell the contractor's employees that I have to actually contact the contractor to let them know that one of their employees wants to apply here. However, this may cause problems between the contractor and the employee, cause us to lose a qualified applicant, and deny the person the opportunity for better pay, benefits and working conditions.
Do any of you have similar issues with hiring employees of contractors?:ball and chain:
Comments
Otherwise, if you want to stick with your current scenario, instead of asking the individual if they've resigned, require them to get a statement from the contracting agency (signed, of course) stating dates of employment, which any company should be able to provide regardless of the circumstances surrounding the termination.