Exactly. Temp agencies never want you to contact clients directly because they want to keep control of the situation (and feel like they’re earning their money) - if they aren’t paying, all bets are off.
What legitimate reason can there be for withholding earnings? I can understand that if the employee violated a company policy that said employee is subject to termination. What I don’t get is how the company can refuse to pay money already earned.
There is no reason to withhold earnings. Refusing to pay wages earned, even to an employee terminated for cause, is called “theft of services”.
Maybe consider contacting a local news outlet that does those shaming segments. This sounds like it’d be right up their alley.
One thing the Onboarding process was very clear about was that I do not have a contract and employment is at will. I did end up contacting the client directly. I left a voicemail message for my supervisor asking if the client did fact pay the agency, then let them know that if they did the agency never passed that on to me. I also asked him to pass this message on to whoever’s in charge of deciding what agencies to use. Within 24 hrs I was contacted by the agency and the ACH transfer posted to my account this morning. I should probably contact the labor department to cancel my complaint (which technically I haven’t filed yet as it can take up to *30 days *for them to send the form I need to fill out to file the complaint to me).
I’m glad it worked out, but please still file the complaint. They need to have it on file who is pulling this kind of crap.
Wow, Pennsylvania is still using actual forms? Indiana lets you do it all on-line and within a week I had a confirming e-mail along with an official claim number.
Well - paying you should end it. If only resolving my unpaid wages had been that easy…