Contract curtailed due to no fault by me

[v33net]

Thanks for the totally professional responses.

[SueEllen]

If you aren't needed you aren't needed there is no need to go into long explanations.

Start looking for a new contract and if asked explain what happened in brief detail e.g. the company canned the project. No-one is interested in company A, company B etc.

[northernladuk]

Might have been worth a bit more detail on the entities. Just calling them Company A - X is no use at all. Client A, Agent A, Agent B or something might have actually helped.

[radish2008]

from reading your post you were binned for being difficult.

I doubt you would have a claim for breach of contract as (you will need to confirm it) the MOO clause in your contract means they don't have to offer you any work.

you'd have to have pretty deep pockets to fight it I guess also.

you stood on a principal and it cost you the gig.

[RonBW]

my contract states a 2 week notice period

That's the only important bit here. Now have a look in the contract and see if there is anything in there that says that you only get paid for the days that you provide services - if you have that then there is very little you can do. If not then invoice for the two weeks unpaid notice.

Get looking for something else while you wait for them to not pay your invoice.

[pr1]

Looks like you were told to jump through a hoop you didn't want to jump through and you refused

Good for you

Good luck finding something else

[Support Monkey]

wow confused or what?? sounds like its to late already but you should have been speaking to whoever your contract is with (the Agency) and got clarification on their payment process the minute you found out about the change, if you follow the process then in theory they would not have a leg to stand on, as it stand though I think you got involved in worrying about the rights and wrongs of the process rather than focusing on getting paid, your choice of course but meaning they binned you from the contract because you didn't\wouldn't follow their process.

I would be interested to know how many of the other contractors got binned or just followed the process and are still onsite, in my experience your best option is chalk it up to experience and move on

[v33net]

That's the only important bit here. Now have a look in the contract and see if there is anything in there that says that you only get paid for the days that you provide services - if you have that then there is very little you can do. If not then invoice for the two weeks unpaid notice.

Get looking for something else while you wait for them to not pay your invoice.

Yeah good advice - fortunately I am just going to be taking time off for a while. If we don't stand up though what's the point.

[v33net]

If you aren't needed you aren't needed there is no need to go into long explanations.

Start looking for a new contract and if asked explain what happened in brief detail e.g. the company canned the project. No-one is interested in company A, company B etc.

Hi thanks - it's not that I am not needed as they are advertising my old role funnily through a different agency this time. If we don't stand up to this though are we just supposed to roll over because we need the money. Fortunately I don't.

[v33net]

wow confused or what?? sounds like its to late already but you should have been speaking to whoever your contract is with (the Agency) and got clarification on their payment process the minute you found out about the change, if you follow the process then in theory they would not have a leg to stand on, as it stand though I think you got involved in worrying about the rights and wrongs of the process rather than focusing on getting paid, your choice of course but meaning they binned you from the contract because you didn't\wouldn't follow their process.

I would be interested to know how many of the other contractors got binned or just followed the process and are still onsite, in my experience your best option is chalk it up to experience and move on

I understand from the Agency others have gone too but some of them didn't even know what was happening and just carried on losing the rights to their private data being flung all over the shop.