Does this sound fair to any of you?

They didn't cancel the contract, they just postponed the start date by one week. I understand the agency has no control over that part. My point is I don't think it's right for an agency to tell their nurse this 3 days before she's supposed to start working AND try to charge her for the housing. They are the ones who screwed up about the start date (I don't think the hospital didn't know when they were running their orientation days). I suspect they did this on purpose because they knew she was going to take a contract with another company if they couldn't get her an assignment that started soon enough.

It's a shame because I actually told my niece about this company based on the positive word of mouth from some posters on this bb and she recommended them to her friend. Her friend will still have to work the contract, but my niece is taking an assignment with another company. I'm sure neither of them will ever work for the company again and I certainly won't or ever recommend them to anyone. I would wash old men's dirty underwear for minimum wage before I'd work for a company like that.

I don't think it makes good business sense for word of things like this to get out either. They have lost at least two future contracts over it: my niece and another friend of hers. They had both signed up, done all the paperwork and were planning on taking an assignment with that company in the near future. Now neither one of them will. I don't think that was worth the few hundred they would have had to pay to house one traveller for a week until her new start date.

I can't say how glad I am that I took my assignment with Emerald Health Services! No bs like this from them...