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  1. I have it on email. This is the exact wording given in the reply to notice in October 'Under the terms of our membership agreements, and across The Club Company group, all Health and Fitness members are committed for the first twelve months of membership. After the first year Health and Fitness members may cancel provided they have given the Club at least one calendar month’s written notice of their intention to do so, to expire at the end of a calendar month. I have arranged for your memberships to be cancelled with effect from 1 February 2017 and your last payment will be on or around the 1 January 2017.' I hadn't given it a thought until I cancelled the direct debit in December and they can go after me for the extra month. When I contested they repeated again that they require 30 days notice which in my eyes I had already given. Perhaps I am just interpreting incorrectly but seems strange that my 12 months started 1st Jan and supposedly will be cancelled 13 months later not 12 despite giving well over the notice required. I have asked them to clarify and provide a copy of my contract.
  2. Thanks for you reply BankFodder, I'm not going crazy then.. The gym is part of 'the club company'. I can't find a copy of their terms and conditions anywhere but asked for a copy and my contract from them earlier. As soon as I have a copy I will fire it up.
  3. Hi All, Hoping you might be able to provide some advice here. I signed a 12 month gym contract on the 1st January 2016 and like most people who get sucked in, hardly used the facilities and decided I wouldn't renew. In October I gave notice to terminate the contract on the 1st January 2017. Now the club have said I still owe them for the month of January because I can only give 30 days notice AFTER my 12 month contract has ended? Is this common practice? I've never had a contract like this before. Thanks SK
  4. Hi HB, Thanks for your reply. Oddly I can't find anything in writing between myself and the agency, not even a contract of employment laying out the terms, all discussions regarding rates were over the phone or face to face. I'm going to check with them today and request a copy if there was one. Thanks
  5. Hi All, Last month I had a call from a well known recruitment agency asking me if I was interested in a 6 month contract, they then said the hourly rate was x amount which was slightly less than I would normally want but they said they would try for a bit more if possible. I had an interview a couple of days later and the next day had a call from the agency with the good news of an offer and the extra amount per hour. Great!. They said they would like me to speak to an umbrella company about how I would be paid, I'd never had experience of being paid this way before so was a bit dubious. I asked what the difference would be and was told I would be paid slightly less per hour PAYE and can claim my travel and food expenses if I used the umbrella company. I agreed to sign up with the umbrella company and took the job. After getting my payslip I now realise that the hourly rate I was expecting was before paying the umbrella company fee, the employers NIC and includes holiday pay (28 days pro rata). When I deduct all of these from my hourly rate i'm actually getting about 20% less than I was expecting. I do manage to pull back enough to cover the employers NIC with expenses but the fact that my net pay is less than I would have expected plus I won't get paid for any of the bank holidays that are approaching or any holiday I make like is worrying. I've sneaked a look at the invoices being sent to the company i'm contracted at and the agency are charging just over 50% markup on my hourly rate, I could understand this if they had to allow for employers NIC, holiday pay etc but they don't. I'm thinking about giving the agency a call and asking for the extra per hour to at least cover the holiday allowance but just curious if they would deduct this from the margin or approach the client? Bit peeved off to be honest, both with myself for being to eager to accept and and the recruitment agent for not being entirely upfront before I accepted the job. Any advice would be much appreciated
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