24 Hour given notice period

[northernladuk]

It's the clause about payment upon receipt of signed time sheet you need to look at. No time sheet for the 20 days = no payment. I just wish clients would get a but smarter here. If they just said we are giving you 20 days notice but in that time we have no work for you people might actually understand the situation a little better.

[SpontaneousOrder]

It's the clause about payment upon receipt of signed time sheet you need to look at. No time sheet for the 20 days = no payment. I just wish clients would get a but smarter here. If they just said we are giving you 20 days notice but in that time we have no work for you people might actually understand the situation a little better.

Perhaps the upstream contract just says immediate termination?, and you therefore get 20 days from agency which is pointless.

[northernladuk]

Perhaps the upstream contract just says immediate termination?, and you therefore get 20 days from agency which is pointless.

Hmm if that's the case someone has screwed up royally. That puts the agency at risk of getting taken to court over the notice period when they don't have that protection in the upper contract. I'd be very surprised if this was the case.

[SueEllen]

I always get my contract terms checked before I sign a contract.

If you didn't and you want to attempt to get your 20 days money then you need to get a fully qualified and practising lawyer who deals with commercial contracts in the IT sector to have a look. (Yes you have to pay and it will cost you more than if you did it in the first place.)

Only then will it be clear if you can invoice the agency and then chase them for breach of contract if they ignore the invoice.

BTW the only time a contract was pulled on me I got my notice paid. I recently worked with another contractor who got his notice paid. In both our cases consultancies were involved but we could talk to them directly.

[SimonMac]

As others have said, the long and short of it is that notice periods only exist to protect the end Client and not the contractor, but then again, how hard would it be to find a thread on here about a contractor trying to get out of their notice period because a better gig has come up elsewhere.

[LondonManc]

ClientCo can turn round and say that there's no work so don't come in.

Looks like 7.5 says it all. If there's no work forthcoming, tough. The project no longer needs delivering so you're no longer required to deliver it. Once I got lucky and got asked to complete the stage of the project I was on so got two more weeks but another time I got asked to leave that day as the CEO pulled the project.