Advice Please - Notice Period Insufficient?

[YumMum1]

Contract t&c states 7 days notice, and I have only been given 4 days (from Monday) as Friday is Bank Holiday. Agency says 7 days includes weekends and as I don't work on Sat/Sun then its 5 working days, but the contract says 7 days notice, it doesn't state working days or anything else. The client is not expecting me back after Easter apparently, so surely they (or the agent) should be paying me for the other 3 days? I am using Parasol as an umbrella, would they be able to help? Is the small claims court an option?
What's annoying is I asked the agency last Tuesday to find out when the contract would be finishing (officially June but not much work to do) and they said it would be continuing and now I have been given notice but not what is in the contract. Anyone have any advice on action to be taken please?

[malvolio]

You don't want a contractual notice period anyway, it is meaningless in reality - as you have just discovered - and your client can use any one of a dozen reasons to chuck you out on one minute's warning, so be grateful you got anything.

Nobody owes you anything, just walk away and go look for the next gig. It's called being a contractor; learn to live with it

[ASB]

Looks to me like you have got 7 days notice. If it doesn't say "working days" you'll have a hard job arguing it's not calendar days. Assuming the day of notification doesn't count (depends on what is stipulated in the contract) the 7 days conveniently expires at the end of next Monday.

By all means try arguing your case but I can't see it getting very far to be honest.

[mictech]

Notice period is a pointer to employment, as deemed in my IR35 review, so trying to get it remove from my contract.

It may put me a risk of a quick exit from the client, but also mean I am not tied in to that client for so long. Their's been load of gigs I have passed over because of the notice period tie in at this gig.