Skillmatch terms for businesses

Skillmatch Trades is a product of Division 1 Systems Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales with company number 17300786. Its registered office is 128 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX. These terms are between your business and Division 1 Systems Ltd, called “we” here.

Skillmatch introduces self-employed tradespeople to businesses that need work done on their own sites. We are an employment agency in the sense of the Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003: we introduce, and you engage the worker directly. We do not supply workers, employ them or pay them.

If your business supplies workers to other businesses, you must say so when we ask. Workers are then told that the work is for one of your clients, and until your business is verified you can work only with your own workforce.

A new workspace is checked before anything is sent: we check who you are and, for a company, that it is on Companies House and that you may act for it. This check is free. Until it is done you can set up your sites and team and import and save your own freelancers, but nothing is sent to anyone. The app shows what your workspace can do at each stage.

You may import people who have worked with you or agreed to hear from you, and nobody else. Each person is invited once, in your name, and can decline. Someone who asks not to be contacted is not contacted again, and their details are removed.

Your plan and its price are shown on your Plan page before you choose one. Prices are the full amount you pay, including any VAT. Paid plans are charged monthly or yearly, and you can change or cancel your plan from your Plan page.

A Free workspace can try Pro once for 14 days, with no card needed. At the end it goes back to Free unless you choose a plan.

Booking someone from the Skillmatch network carries a booking fee. The fee is shown to you before you confirm the booking, and is added to your next invoice or charged to the card saved for the booking. If you undo a booking within an hour of confirming it, there is no fee. After that, the fee stands even if you later cancel the booking, unless you cancel it because a check shows the worker can’t work on it. There is no fee if the worker cancels or we end the booking before the first shift, or for a no-show you report, unless the worker is found to have been there. A worker you first booked through Skillmatch carries the fee for 12 months, even once they join your own workforce. Booking anyone else in your own workforce never has a fee.

We will give you 30 days’ notice before we change a price. If you do not choose a paid plan, your workspace stays on the Free plan and keeps its records.

Workers never pay Skillmatch anything.

You tell us, before you post work, about the site and the hazards a worker needs to know. You are responsible for the site, for induction, and for checking that the person who arrives is the person you booked.

You check the right to work of each person you book yourself, before they start, and record it on the booking. Skillmatch keeps the record of what was checked, how and when. The duty stays with you.

If we change these terms in a way that matters, we will ask you to accept the new version before you post new work. Bookings already made continue under the version you agreed to.