I'd be interested to hear what others think the recourse if any is when work dries up partway through a contract. I am not moaning about such a situation, simply trying to understand how others have dealt with it short of simply moving on.
Obviously it would be unwise to state minimum hours expected and mutuality of obligation in any written sense in a contract (unless you want to be in IR35).
Leaving that aside though, is there not a basic obligation, for want of a better word, that both parties to a contract for work to be carried out honour their side of their bargain (the client requesting a reasonable amount of work and the contractor undertaking that amount of work in a reasinable time, to quality etc) ?
And if so what recourse might there be ? If not, what value does a contract have..perhaps its a very flimsy thing after all and literally not worth the paper..
Obviously it would be unwise to state minimum hours expected and mutuality of obligation in any written sense in a contract (unless you want to be in IR35).
Leaving that aside though, is there not a basic obligation, for want of a better word, that both parties to a contract for work to be carried out honour their side of their bargain (the client requesting a reasonable amount of work and the contractor undertaking that amount of work in a reasinable time, to quality etc) ?
And if so what recourse might there be ? If not, what value does a contract have..perhaps its a very flimsy thing after all and literally not worth the paper..
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