What the hell?!?

[TheFaQQer]

Wouldn't it be spiffy if every post which asked "What am I supposed to do" finished with a little nugget on what the OP actually did.

First rule of asking for advice on t'internet, isn't it? Never tell people what you did, or say thank you.

It's up there with posting "Thanks, I solved the problem" in a technical forum, without any explanation of what you did to solve it.

[DaveB]

In all honesty, in your position I'd go for the 60k permie role rather than get bounced into being a contractor before I was ready for it.

Give yourself a chance to get sorted after this situation has played out and make an informed descision about your future plans rather than letting yourself get pushed into it. As Malvolio said, this is a serious career move and it's not a game.

[Bluebird]

i agree with the comments

but might I add that you should accept other contracts in your 'spare' time

having multiple clients is a good IR35 strategy

make sure all your contracts allows you to do this

2c

Having multiple contracts does not affect IR35 status - IR35 status is for each contract not you as a contractor - you can be operating one inside and one outside simultaneously.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

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Also, surely redundancy and a retainer or redundancy followed by another permie job elsewhere is going to be much better than pursuing a solo wrongful dismissal claim against a company - what are you going to gain ? - your old job back - and for how long?
..............!

Whilst I loathe lawyers (in fact, perhaps this is one reason why I loathe them), it may well be possible to secure a payment in excess of what could be expected as redundancy by claiming unfair dismissal. Because lawyers are so expensive, it will often be cheaper for the company to pay up than fight. However such action would be (IMHO) immoral without a genuine grievance and risky. Almost no-one ever gets their job back - it's all about the money.