Statutory rights contractors notice period

[ratewhore]

You're a business selling a service so if you don't want to turn up you don't have to dress it up as a sabbatical or holidays or whatever. Realistically, if you value your reputation then it's best to discuss with client and let their opinion guide you as to what you will do...

[Emperor Dalek]

any ideas anyone?

could i jsut take a 4 week holiday from now? how does that work?

Put yourself on the other side. If you engaged a builder to do you a two story side and back extension and after a month he tells you he's going to take four weeks off, what would you think?

[Mordac]

Face it, you're not a real contractor, you're just a permie who wanted more money. Now you've realised the grass isn't as green as you thought it might have been and you want out. Or have I got it completely wrong? Doesn't anyone read their contracts before signing them? If you want a holiday, ask the client. If it doesn't muck up their schedules, they'll be fine about it. If you want to leave because you think you can get more money elsewhere, then you might as well go back to permiedom, because we've all signed contracts and then been offered another £50 a day somewhere else, but that's all part of the game. Elsewhere on this forum there's a cry for help from someone whose contract got terminated after a week. tulip happens, if you want to be a contractor, you take the good with the bad. If you don't like it, there's a nice soft bed waiting for you in permieland.
Whatever you do decide to do, don't ever come on here again whingeing about "contractors rights". That really pisses me off. You want rights? Go permie.

[Lucifer Box]

Harsh, but fair, Mordy. Harsh, but fair.

[ASB]

Talk to an employment lawyer. It depends upon your overall situation. You don't really give enough information for anybody to produce an entirely sensible answer which can be known to fit your circumstances.

Broadly the DTI regs allow you to give notice to your employer. That is likely (but not necessarily) the umbrella you appear to be using.

So, it's quite clear. You can leave in 4 weeks in the absence of a notice period in your contract of employment (or no written one) . The question then is what happens next. You cease turning up at your employers client. Is there any comeback on you?

Quite likely. depends on the contracts you have signed.