Termination without warning

[northernladuk]

I don't think so for the reasons other have said.

But... surely the fact that you only get paid for days worked, and they have no obligation to offer you work on any given day regardless of whether the contract is still ongoing, then there is a lack of mutuality with regards to obligation?

I.e. the lack of mutuality of obligation is in fact what is making the notice period (in that direction at least) redundant. The client is not obliged to actually offer you work during the contract period.

Although that does just sound like a zero hours employment contract.

Still not convinced bringing obligation in day to day operations is right. We work T&M so surely work this day and not that day comes under that not obligation.

[SpontaneousOrder]

No obligation to offer you alternative work while in contract or more work once current contract is finished.

I guess this is what i'm alluding to. They aren't obliged to find you something to do if you finish early (and i'm to obliged to accept it if they did). Thats why i make sure i get written conformation that my services are no longer required when a project finishes early, even if I then accept a new schedule for something else at the same client.

All that being said, I read some guidance on HMRC site which referred to case history - and it all sounds completely subjective and whimsy.

[northernladuk]

Sorry I deleted my rambling as I realized it was what you were alluding too but you replied before I submitted it lol.

[expat]

Still not convinced bringing obligation in day to day operations is right. We work T&M so surely work this day and not that day comes under that not obligation.

Sorry, respectfully disagree: we do not always work T&M. IMHO if you have a contract that specifies for example 62 days of work, that is T&M. If it specifies work until 31st October, that is not T&M.

[arby]

...Usually because they were tulip....

had to look that one up Urban Dictionary: tulip

I have lived a sheltered life.

[eek]

had to look that one up Urban Dictionary: tulip

I have lived a sheltered life.

probably not the best place to find the definition. On here tulip is the word used to replace a 4 letter word for human excrement...

[SimonMac]

probably not the best place to find the definition. On here tulip is the word used to replace a 4 letter word for human excrement...

You mean poop?