Temp forced to walk due to gross colleagues

[wannagethelp]

Can anybody advise please, after a year of searching for a job, finally landed a brilliant temp to perm job, fantastic! Initially worked with 2 seperate teams of lovely people then placed with team I would be working for,,,,,,oh my,,,,,absolutely gross,,,,,foul language, constantly talking graphic and pornagraphic sex talk, even beastiality,,,offensive and discriminative remarks about absolutely every minority group from people in social housing to immigrants,,,,,,unbelievable, so intolerable that I had to walk out of the job,,,,,,I am so upset,,,,,a brilliant job and now gone! Agency is fumbling and the company management met with me and made all the right noises, apologised, etc etc but I still have no job,,,,,,,its so unfair,,,,,,what rights do I have, I was only a temp so I'm not sure what I can do about this,,,,,I'm getting angrier by the hour,,,,can anyone advise please?

[teaboy2]

As your an agency worker you are not employed by the company like the other's are and therefore have very little rights compared to that of an employee. If you had been an employee of the company you could have put in an grievance, but since your an agency worker you can not, as your contract is with your agency not the company.

 

However as the company was made aware of the issue and has apologised, then i suspect they have also taken action against those employees in question. If you would like to still work for the company, my advice would be to contact them and inform them of how much you liked the job prior to the issue that cause you to walk out, and ask if their is any possibility of you returning to work for them whether as an agency worker or employee, but preferably as an employee. I say preferably as an employee becuase then you will have the same rights and entitlements as any other employee at the company.

 

If the they had specifically made discriminative remarks directly/indirectly to/about you, whether sexual or rascist etc, then you could make a claim at tribunal. But apart from that, there really isn't much you can do.

Edited January 19, 2011 by teaboy2

[meekmeek]

as the employment agency has a duty to find you a job that will aid you more with the advice i about to give

 

whether you use the resources of the agency or just self motivation i would consider contacting the company with a general letter stateing how you would like to work for the company in future and would like to hear about any oppertunities that will come up in future working along side team-office one or two and although you had personal issues with team three you found the company on the whole was great [blah blah blah sing its praises in own way]

 

ending the letter

"and I look forward to any replies or oppertunities in the future"

 

or something as such to give them the feeling you want to keep the communication between yourself and company open

 

a simple letter like this can get you further then just giving up something which began as a great experience from what i have read

 

it is hard these days for many to get a job - let alone ones that people enjoy [exception in this case being the experience from colleagues [team 3]] so if you truly did enjoy team 1 & 2 and the work load-tasks then fight for it