3 months contract notice period

[DaveB]

"My legal advice is that the notice periods should be reciprocal"

"Having a short notice period is better for my IR35 status - if I have to take a higher risk, then I'll need to rethink the rate to accommodate that"

It's not the length of period that is the IR35 indicator, it is the mutuality of obligation. Equal notice periods have been cited as indicators of employment status because of this.

If the client is not obliged to give you the same notice as you are to them then it removes any mutuality of obligation between you.

[TheFaQQer]

It's not the length of period that is the IR35 indicator, it is the mutuality of obligation. Equal notice periods have been cited as indicators of employment status because of this.

If the client is not obliged to give you the same notice as you are to them then it removes any mutuality of obligation between you.

I was just suggesting phrases to tell agents

Qdos have in the past suggested that not being able to give notice provided MOO on my part, since I would have to be there.

[panadol]

It's not the length of period that is the IR35 indicator, it is the mutuality of obligation. Equal notice periods have been cited as indicators of employment status because of this.

If the client is not obliged to give you the same notice as you are to them then it removes any mutuality of obligation between you.

So it is better from IR35 perspective for me not to have non-equal notice periods?

[TheFaQQer]

So it is better from IR35 perspective for me not to have non-equal notice periods?

It depends on who you ask

I'd argue that a notice period of one week from either party wouldn't produce MOO and would be atypical of an employer-employee relationship, therefore was a good pointer to being outside IR35.