Breaking my contract?

[northernladuk]

WHS. Although does contract have notice period?

Or just phone in sick and not turn up? lol

Phone in sick? You are such a permie.

[psychocandy]

Phone in sick? You are such a permie.

What do you do then if you are sick and wont be in? Not tell the client...

Whether permie, contractor, consultant, toilet cleaner it makes sense to at least tell the person expecting you that you won't be there as planned?

My comment was a little tongue-in-cheek though :-) Merely trying to indicate that it might be slightly less hassle to tell client/agent you were ill rather than admitting you were swanning off somewhere else for more money or whatever.

[NorthWestPerm2Contr]

At end of the day it doesn't matter what the wording of the mail/verbal/written in blood. None of these change the situation one iota. The agent will be seriously pissed off and I expect the OP will have to fight for his last pay. The client will be mildly unamused (I am assuming he isn't key to anything) but he will live. Don't expect them to be falling over to offer you work in the future though, it may happen but don't assume it is a given anymore.

You are dealing with people and their bonus here. It will never go legal so what he said and how is pretty irrelavant. He gave the expectation he was staying and has now withdrawn it. There are going to be pissed off people and threats. That is what he has to deal with. The chance of anything serious coming out of this is virtually zero. Just gonna be a bit of a tulipstorm for awhile that is all. How much of a tulipstorm depends on how hard he plays it.

The OP might want to drop NWP2C a PM for some expert advice letting clients/agents down and how to deal with it.

Just hope he learns doing this shizzle is not very professional and do it too much it will come back and bite you... hard.

Thanks for remembering me

[kingcook]

What do you do then if you are sick and wont be in? Not tell the client...

Real contractors aren't sick

[NorthWestPerm2Contr]

I am coming to the end of the first 3 months in my currency contract. This is due to end on 31st jan.

I accepted an extension by email, but signed no paperwork that was sent. This extension is due to end March 31st.

I have since been offered a preferable contract (longer). I would like to accept this, but on emailing my agency, I was informed that I had accepted the extension (starts feb 1st) and that my contract states:
'The Supplier understands and agrees that any Assignment
may not be terminated by the Supplier for any reason'

I wondered where I stand legally. Can the agency make me continue with the extension of the contract despite having no signed paperwork for the extension and despite me not having started this extension yet?

Any help would be greatfully received.

Some honest, genuine, non-insulting advice:

Contrary to what NLUK may tell you, I have never broken a contract, so he is just confusing the matter when it comes to this. If you don't have it in your contract to give notice then don't risk it. It won't look good on you and it is likely to give you a bad name and trouble in the future. You should take it as a lesson and negotiate notice period into any contract you are not 100% sure of.

[northernladuk]

Some honest, genuine, non-insulting advice:

Contrary to what NLUK may tell you, I have never broken a contract, so he is just confusing the matter when it comes to this. If you don't have it in your contract to give notice then don't risk it. It won't look good on you and it is likely to give you a bad name and trouble in the future. You should take it as a lesson and negotiate notice period into any contract you are not 100% sure of.

Negotiate an IR35 flag in to your contract... Great advice that is....

Contracting termination clauses that avoid IR35 risk

[fraymond]

Almost always the best advice is to just have an honest conversation and come to some compromise. There are lots of things that could be proposed. It's like a landlord, even if you can hold your disgruntled tenants to a contract, do you really want them staying in your house?

[psychocandy]

Real contractors aren't sick

True enough lol. If you're not dead you go in!