Client terminating without notice

[cojak]

No bickering on Professional forums please, or all 3 of you will be sin-binned for a day to cool down.

[centurian]

That's harsh. I got canned by a bank recently but got a month notice. Things are grim. During my notice period 9 more contractors got binned. The day I left, 6 more.

I think thats because there is an incorrect understanding among some ClientCo's that you actually have a paid notice period.

But the strict letter of most of these contracts means that they don't have to pay you.

So it depends how clued up and hard ClientCo / agency want to play it.

[sbakoola]

I'm sure if the reverse were true and you just decided to walk out without giving any notice just prior to a big delivery then there would be action taken against your limited company so I say pursue it but don't spend 1000s.

Through the ages on this forum I've seen people in the same situation, what would work best is a debt collection agency, dunno who to direct it to the IB or the agency, or an initial legal letter.

[prozak]

Lectures from someone who suggests a real business would silently ditch ten grand worth of notice period because that's what a 'real business' would do, will be treated with the contempt they deserve.

my point exactly.

I operate my company on a commercial basis not on the basis I am a one man band trying to dodge IR35.

[malvolio]

my point exactly.

I operate my company on a commercial basis not on the basis I am a one man band trying to dodge IR35.

One last time. All I'm saying is that you may have a notice period in your contract but, as the OP has demonstrated, it's not the clause the agency and the client will use to terminate the contract. So in effect, notice periods for contractors have zero value if the client doesn't want to pay you any more.

But as you say, I know nothing.

[Big Bird]

Agent got back to me with the reason for no notice period;



So I read that as 'Client had a clause enabling them to terminate without notice'. Ah well.

'Have the right to terminate' is not the same as 'Have the right to terminate without notice' so theoretically you have a case. Of course the original intent of this clause was 'Have the right to terminate without notice' so as to protect the client but it was not written as such. You can try to point this out to the agency and you may get something. But then of course the agency will smarten up and change the clause for all future contracts.