Contract Issues / Notice Periods

**SueEllen** · 19 May 2015, 23:01

It's actually normal in a contract to not have passwords, access etc for a couple of weeks.

The trick is how you deal with it.

Oddly if after you have done your preliminary reading and meeting people you say you are going home it tends to turn up quicker.

In regards to ridiculous demands some clients are like that and you need to manage them.

**northernladuk** · 19 May 2015, 23:39

I really don't think clients try and force you out. If they don't want you they can walk you there and then and don't have to pay you a penny penny more regardless of notice periods

**Twentyeight Ltd** · 20 May 2015, 06:02

Guess partly my question relates to that, does a client need to pay you for that notice period if they get rid?

**cojak** · 20 May 2015, 06:21

Originally posted by leejohnson28 View Post

Guess partly my question relates to that, does a client need to pay you for that notice period if they get rid?

No.

If you don't work you don't have a signed off time sheet. If you don't have a signed off time sheet you don't get paid.

This is how contracting works.

**rootsnall** · 20 May 2015, 08:11

Out of interest what is the story in reverse, if said contractor walks out mid contract. For the sake of an example, on a PCG recommended contract, if they still have one that is.

**rootsnall** · 20 May 2015, 08:15

Originally posted by leejohnson28 View Post

So i have recently started a new contract and so far nothing has gone right, 2 weeks without IT and now i have it, the demands i am faced with are completely unrealistic. Not even a little bit.... i mean VERY.

Faced with that situation I would itemise the work and give some estimates and put it in an email. And ask them what do you want me to do first please.

**northernladuk** · 20 May 2015, 08:16

Originally posted by rootsnall View Post

Out of interest what is the story in reverse, if said contractor walks out mid contract. For the sake of an example, on a PCG recommended contract, if they still have one that is.

The reality or the theory?

**TechJinx** · 20 May 2015, 08:30

Originally posted by rootsnall View Post

Out of interest what is the story in reverse, if said contractor walks out mid contract. For the sake of an example, on a PCG recommended contract, if they still have one that is.

Depends on the organisation

I had someone working for me - said she was taking 2 weeks holiday which was all fine - then we found out she was working at a new contract at a Bank.

I stopped all payments even though she had a signed timesheet for that time and had a brief heated call with the agents where I told them we wouldn't be using them again. (mainly for the guys attitude when he should have actually been apologising not pushing us to pay!)

However I'm sure she's earning more than she was here so its a personal choice really and whether you think you can afford to burn bridges. Doubt many companies would go to the trouble of pursuing you for breach of contract.

**rootsnall** · 20 May 2015, 08:59

Originally posted by TechJinx View Post

Depends on the organisation

I had someone working for me - said she was taking 2 weeks holiday which was all fine - then we found out she was working at a new contract at a Bank.

I stopped all payments even though she had a signed timesheet for that time and had a brief heated call with the agents where I told them we wouldn't be using them again. (mainly for the guys attitude when he should have actually been apologising not pushing us to pay!)

However I'm sure she's earning more than she was here so its a personal choice really and whether you think you can afford to burn bridges. Doubt many companies would go to the trouble of pursuing you for breach of contract.

Well done, I suspect some soft touch clients pay up. So I assume the contractor didn't get the money either, various threats were chucked around, and that was the end of it.

Contract Issues / Notice Periods