6 months

[porrker]

Hi all,

I've just finished my first contract here in UK, and now I have the chance to work again at the end client but with a different agency, the point is that I can't do it because I've been told that I must wait for a period of 6 months.

If I leave the job I find this clause fairly reasonable, but it seems to me a bit abusive if has been the end client who has decided not extend the contract.

Is it the above legal?

Regards

I once had to take some legal advice around this clause in a contract. The advice was as long as you have finished your current contract with Agency A this will be very difficult to uphold. The argument was that Agency A have no right to prevent you from earning a living. They did advise to give it an invoicing cycle before starting the new contract with Agency B.

[captainham]

I once had to take some legal advice around this clause in a contract. The advice was as long as you have finished your current contract with Agency A this will be very difficult to uphold. The argument was that Agency A have no right to prevent you from earning a living. They did advise to give it an invoicing cycle before starting the new contract with Agency B.

Interesting and also sounds perfectly reasonable. I would advise the OP to seek legal advice too; a couple of hundred quid (?) will possibly (probably?) end the same way in which case he is free to take up the new contract with the new agency.