Signed Contract

[SueEllen]

steve80 you were given lots of useful feedback it just happened not to be the answers you wanted.

[oracleslave]

Hi Guys

Where does one stand legally if a Contract has been signed but not yet started ?

One stands with an acceptance from a customer of an offer of service from your Ltd Company due to commence at some point in the future.

Can they take legal action against me if I revoke my acceptance ?

Steve

Their ability to take legal action would likely depend on whether your revocation abides by the terms of your contract.

[steve80]

steve80 you were given lots of useful feedback it just happened not to be the answers you wanted.

Some good info yes, but mostly useless and not helped at all.

[oracleslave]

Hi Guys

Where does one stand legally if a Contract has been signed but not yet started ?

Reason, I ask, Im due to start in a couple of weeks and I have signed contract, but Ive also had another offer since

Can they take legal action against me if I revoke my acceptance ?

Steve

Just ditch the first contract. Get a new payg phone and sign up for the new contract. It will all be fine. Every man for himself huh.


Go get em tiger.

[northernladuk]

Some good info yes, but mostly useless and not helped at all.

To be fair this is asked quite a lot so searching using the method described in the thread below might have helped somewhat...

http://forums.contractoruk.com/welco...uk-forums.html

[steve80]

You gotta do what's right and look after yourself and family. If you piss agencies off along the way due to accepting a better rate then do be it.

Ste

[KenWhite]

I have been in several contracts where, from talking to the managers, they have quite a lot of no-shows (perm as well as contract). Seems to be an accepted risk with the hiring company. Agent will get upset, maybe make threats etc. but there are an awful lot of agents and quite a few for each contract, it seems.

[TheFaQQer]

Yes they can. They can try and sue you for losses incurred although realistically these will be very low, just their time to replace you.

Not quite. They can sue you for their losses incurred by the breach of contract. That may or may not be very low, depending on what their costs are - to suggest that it would only be their time is naive at best.

Additional costs may also include the cost of re-advertising, cost of recruitment (eg. credit checks, background checks, anything else that they have had to do), loss of margin between when you were due to start and when your replacement starts, and so forth.