Terms of business

About us

Sowers Recruitment acts as both an employment agency (for permanent placements) and an employment business (for temporary workers) as defined by the Employment Agencies Act 1973. We operate solely in the United Kingdom.

For candidates

• Our services are free to candidates. Charging a work-seeker a fee for finding them work is prohibited by the Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003, and we do not do it in any form
• We will not send your CV to any employer without your consent for that specific role
• We will tell you the identity of the employer, the nature of the role, the pay, and the length of any assignment before you agree to it
• You are under no obligation to accept any role we put to you, and declining will not affect what we offer you next

For clients — permanent placements

• Our fee is a percentage of the candidate's first-year gross remuneration. The figure itself, our rebate terms, the introduction period and payment terms are set out in the agreement we send you and agreed in writing before we start work — never applied after the event
• You will know what a placement costs before we introduce anybody. We do not send CVs speculatively, and we do not invoice for an introduction you did not ask for
• We reserve the right to charge interest on late payment under the Late Payment of Commercial Debts (Interest) Act 1998

For clients — temporary workers

• Temporary workers are supplied on an hourly charge rate comprising the worker's pay, employer's National Insurance, holiday pay, pension contributions and our margin. We will break this down for you on request
• Timesheets must be authorised weekly. Authorisation confirms the hours worked and the satisfactory performance of the assignment
• If you want to take a temporary worker on permanently, the Conduct Regulations give you a choice: a transfer fee, or an extended period of hire at the agreed rate instead. Both options and the figures are in your agreement — we will not present the fee as your only route
• Agency Workers Regulations 2010 rights apply after 12 continuous calendar weeks in the same role. We will manage this with you

Our obligations to clients

• We verify each candidate's identity and right to work in the UK before introduction
• We obtain the qualifications and references appropriate to the role, and tell you what we have and have not been able to verify
• We take reasonable steps to confirm a candidate is suitable, but the decision to engage them, and any further vetting, remains yours

Liability

The limits on our liability to clients are set out in the agreement we send you before we begin work, so you read them before you are bound by them rather than discover them afterwards. Whatever those limits say, nothing in them excludes or restricts our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, or for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation. The law does not permit those to be excluded and we do not attempt it.

Website terms

• This site and its content are our property or licensed to us. You may not copy or republish it commercially without permission
• Vacancy details are supplied by clients and believed accurate at the time of publication, but we do not warrant that any advertised role remains available
• Salary guidance published on this site is indicative market information, not an offer or a guarantee of what any employer will pay

Governing law

These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales have exclusive jurisdiction.