Manpower UK Limited Reviews 

Would definitely not recommend Manpower to anyone
Was told to hand my notice in which luckily I didn’t. Poor communication
Dreadful company please stay well clear.
South Shields branch

Well, the agency pretend to be serious, unfortunately, to experience that the "specialist" from this agency who does not know how to maintain his own device, and not cappable to plug in a simle HDMI cable to his laptop is suppose to decide if you are cappable to work in the factory line? Shame on you! I have whitnessed this on my own. And there has been mamy applicants with me good enough and cappable left out without a response or any feedback! Bear in mind company lives from the wages the people produce for them!

Through their subsidiary, Experis, they so far have failed to pay my salary this month. Oh, they brought me onboard because of IR35 so I am an employee. But only when it suits them to take their cut, not when it comes to actually treating me like one. I feel like a victim of a scam - sham employee status. Well, I am an employee under the law so I wonder what HMRC or DWP would think of their behaviour? Don’t touch them, unless you like working for free.

Absolute nightmare of an onboarding process to start a contract. Their "compliance" procedures are nothing short of ridiculous with terrible communication to boot.

Wasted mine and their clients time by 5 weeks before I cut off any ties with these recruiters. One of the worst experiences in getting a contract I have had in 10 years.

awful, this company never paid my PAYE taxes or National Insurance. i got a significant bill from HMRC, just finished paying. beware Manpower Belfast.

Just a crap agency in general your treated as a number and they let you know that, very uncaring towards mental health and time off for injury or mental health issues. If you ar*# lick them then they like you better but I ain't into that.

Dealt with manpower employee Joanne Bain, to say the overall experience was poor would be an understatement. She seemed to take great pride in pointing out flaws without even a shred of positivity. Overall shocking experience and would avoid at all cost in the future.

Time after time I’ve asked this second rate ignorant company to stop sending me information. Yet they think they are above the law. I’m going to send my report to the ICO office. I want them fined and compensation. Very arrogant company.

Tried to get in touch with Manpower in October last year for a job in the Home office no response until I've rang them beginning of Jan. Nobody knew nothing then finally they found my emails. They offered me 4 roles had a look told them which I want gave them all my documents filled in all the paperwork including security clearance check from the Home office, Manpower told me it'll take up to six weeks, waited for couple weeks rang them few times as nobody ever keeps you updated. And now after 6months of waiting in total they've just rang me to say that that role was given away. Six months ppl, I have waited refused other jobs so that I didn't get it. Save your time patience and the money that's all can say. Horrible unprofessional company especially Liverpool branch.

Do not work here. Certain employees are liars. Was unfairly let off even though the company I worked for wanted to keep me. Then i kept on getting told I could start again ‘soon’, so I waited. Found out I was lied to. Then told them I wanted to leave manpower and all of a sudden, I could start as soon as one Saturday. I was told to upload all my details online so I thought this was genuine until they ghosted me for weeks again and didnt give me no replies or clarity. The least you could do during this cost of living crisis is not give people false hope or lie to them. How about simply being straight up and clear. This issue has been going on for months. Everyone out here needs a job and youre leading people on and wasting their time. Disgusting employees with no genuine care. You can tell they don’t care as their company will just write their automated emails out to these review not looking to genuinely do anything about it

Never work for manpower their employees are extremely rude they don’t know how to treat new employees the way they talk is just ridiculous. Please learn some good manners and improve your service. If you keep on doing this and treat people badly no one will work for manpower.

Guys, you need to maybe be a tad more proactive.

STAY AWAY FROM MANPOWER THEY CONTINUALLY PAY LATE !!!

I posted a review last month about being paid late and incorrectly by manpower. They apologized and 2 weeks later I went back to work for them.
Well, it seems this dynamic is part of their business model and not a genuine error at all. I was due to be paid last Friday and no pay was set up AGAIN! When I emailed to query no one replied so I called and someone said Oh year sorry I was going to call you but there is a glitch in our system we can only pay you a percentage and the rest next week.

I have never known a business practice so amateur, unprofessional, and completely unqualified for the type of contracts they receive, even at this stage I have received no apologies or explanation as to why this keeps happening they simply can't pay you correctly, and on time also still haven't been paid for work I completed 2 weeks ago!

Please guys avoid Manpower like the plague.

Communication and professionalism is nearly none existent. I was working at a company when I received another call from MP asking if I was unemployed. It seems communication within the agency is terrible as well. I messaged my contact Isaac several times about crucial information and was ignored. Will never use again and dissuade friends too.

Applied for a job with them online recently (as I have many times with Manpower). I called them up to also let them know I’d applied and was told they’d get the person dealing with it to give me a call.

A week later, still no call.

I’d rather not be associated with a company with this level of ignorance, there’s absolutely no need for it.

I have been constantly lied to for 3 weeks, more precisely, I worked 6 days in the week of October 30, respectively November 5, and I was not paid even though I received dozens of assurances that I would be paid every week, the last interaction was Friday 17.11.2023 when I was asked for my bank details to take possession of the money on Friday, today being Monday, I asked the agency again who assured me that my money had left since Friday to call my bank to convince me and that I would receive it by 12.00 at the latest now it is 12.20 and I have not received anything and I also called the bank where it was confirmed that there was no transaction to me. Beware of them they are scammers and liars.

I wouldn't recommend to anyone working for them, as they are just lying to you on a daily basis and looking to satisfy only their interests. When you see Manpower just run and hide cause its better, you will be better off working for somebody else.
In my case I'll just write about one of them lies:
They said I will be paid at a rate of 13.63£/hr but in fact I was paid only 10.9£/hr because I didn't wished to work anymore with them. So for a 4 day work at royal mail NDC I got paid only 150£; they don't even give the right ammount of hours worked.

Inconsistency is the key word. You'll be doing more work than the actual consultants if you go through the website no one ever gets back to you have to chase up constantly. Only times I've been successful have been when I've got the actual contact off a friend who was already working there or stumbled across the right consultant after months of being sent to the wrong ones or told they dont deal with this.Its who you know the website is a joke give up unless you know people already working there who can give you the actual contacts -even then you may not get a reply

There is an excellent team in place at the Manpower Grimsby Branch . I get daily phonecalls and emails about my upcoming shifts , they are very helpful and very supportive and always keep in touch