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Terms of business.

Permanent recruitmentVersion 2 · 27 October 2026

At a glance: the key numbers, in plain English.

  • 15%Fee for driving, warehouse and forklift roles, of first-year basic salary.
  • 20%Fee for skilled trades, engineering and supervisory roles, unless we agree a different rate in writing.
  • 14 daysPayment due within 14 days of the invoice. We invoice on the candidate’s start date.
  • 12 weeksFree replacement if the candidate leaves, or you dismiss them for reasons other than redundancy, or part of the fee back if we can’t replace them.

Free replacement if a hire leaves within 12 weeks

  1. The hire leaves within 12 weeksThey resign, or you let them go for any reason other than redundancy. Tell us within 7 days.
  2. We find a free replacementOne replacement at no extra fee, as long as the invoice was paid on time.
  3. Or money backIf we can’t find someone suitable within 8 weeks: 100% back if they left in weeks 1–4, 50% in weeks 5–8, 25% in weeks 9–12.

Applies when the invoice was paid on time. Full wording in clause 4.

These terms apply when Saulius Saulenas, trading as Saulius Automates It (“we”), introduces candidates to a business (“you”) for permanent employment. We act as an employment agency under the Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003. By interviewing or engaging a candidate we introduce, you accept these terms.

1. Introductions

An introduction is sending you a candidate’s details (with or without their name), or arranging an interview. Introductions are confidential: please do not pass a candidate’s details to anyone else. We only introduce people who have agreed to be put forward, and we take reasonable steps to confirm the qualifications and licences you have said the role requires. You remain responsible for your own right-to-work checks and for the final decision to hire.

2. Fee

A fee is due if you, or a connected business, engage a candidate we introduced within 12 months of the introduction, in any role. The fee is 15% of the first-year basic annual salary for driving, warehouse and forklift roles, and 20% for skilled trades, engineering and supervisory roles, unless we agree a different rate in writing. For hourly roles, the annual salary is the hourly rate × contracted weekly hours × 52. There is no fee if you do not hire anyone we introduce. We are not VAT registered, so no VAT is charged.

3. Invoicing and payment

We invoice on the candidate’s start date. Payment is due within 14 days of the invoice. Please tell us the start date and agreed salary as soon as an offer is accepted.

4. If the hire does not work out

If the candidate leaves, or you dismiss them for reasons other than redundancy, within 12 weeks of starting, and the invoice was paid on time, we will introduce one replacement candidate at no extra fee. Please tell us within 7 days of the leaving date. If we cannot introduce a suitable replacement within 8 weeks of you telling us, we will refund part of the fee instead: 100% if the candidate left in weeks 1–4, 50% in weeks 5–8 and 25% in weeks 9–12.

5. General

If you re-engage a candidate we introduced within 12 months of them leaving, the fee in clause 2 applies. Our liability is limited to the fee paid for the relevant introduction, except where the law does not allow it to be limited. These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales.

Questions: saulius@sauliusautomatesit.com · 0115 661 1053

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