General question about NDAs and agencies/temp work

[Would rather not be named]

I thought you didn't want to be named...



Just hope it doesn't cover talking about your gig and hinting who it is on an open forum

Lol Very droll.

That's the thing cannot recall what it covered but ha you would all be real hard pressed to guess the company from the limited info.

[SueEllen]

Let us just say me and the people in our team our section whatever you want to call it were let go in a shoddy clandestine manner.

I don't want to say much more about it in case anyone from said company is on here. Would the NDA cover said recording provided there was a recording which my friend may have done. Is kinda where I am going with this.

Though if you are going to leak stuff there are ways and means of doing it.

If have signed something and you had to get a solicitor to check it over then "no" you can't do anything with the recording.

If a solicitor hasn't looked at what was signed to advise you on it, and any of the staff were permanent employees they could leak the recording but it would look vindictive to any judge.

For example all those people sacked by text message, email or found out though the media, made sure they went to the media immediately before anything could be put in front of them to sign.

[LondonManc]

NDA's typically surround intellectual property rights, customer/supplier lists and costs and general methodologies.

You can probably describe what you did but not how you did it, i.e. led a team of callers and increased charitable donations by 20%

While you couldn't disclose how you did it, your behaviours in your new role may give it away if they are repeated. You've not disclosed anything then, though.

[SueEllen]

Was via agency unsure had a contract as such. Basically one day they got us all in a room and some managerial type babbled and told us work had ran out. He chatted some tulipe that's for sure...

That's the thing I cannot remember always kinda assumed NDA covered everything.

This happens if you aren't a permanent employee.

If you don't want this to happen then go perm otherwise grow up.

[cojak]

Was via agency unsure had a contract as such. Basically one day they got us all in a room and some managerial type babbled and told us work had ran out. He chatted some tulipe that's for sure...

That's the thing I cannot remember always kinda assumed NDA covered everything.

Nowt to do with NDAs, everything to do with contracting.

Take a look at your contract, it probably says something about notice periods.

[northernladuk]

Nowt to do with NDAs, everything to do with contracting.

Take a look at your contract, it probably says something about notice periods.

More importantly it will probably say something about not being paid if you don't have a signed time sheet which will trump the notice period.

[SueEllen]

More importantly it will probably say something about not being paid if you don't have a signed time sheet which will trump the notice period.

We actually don't know if the OP was a contactor, a temp or on zero hours.

I've met temps who called themselves contractors just because the people they worked alongside where actually contractors.

Regardless the OP has no employment rights when it comes to dismissal.

The fact the management bothered to tell them there is no more work is a lot nicer than what lots of companies do to workers they know longer want.

[Would rather not be named]

We actually don't know if the OP was a contactor, a temp or on zero hours.

I've met temps who called themselves contractors just because the people they worked alongside where actually contractors.

Regardless the OP has no employment rights when it comes to dismissal.

The fact the management bothered to tell them there is no more work is a lot nicer than what lots of companies do to workers they know longer want.

Home now so can respond in more depth! Thank you all for all replies etc, useful stuff.

Funny thing is my status was quite opaque so I dunno either...erm I will assume it was either temp or zero hours. Surely not a contractor.

Thing aboiut this company, so far as I could see it was mostly agency staff. Certainly in excess of 50%, at ahunch maybe 2/3. Our supervisor said he was there four years before he got taken onto the books so yeah...

Yes that rather figures, and the way he did it wasn't very great let's say. A phone call handled professionally may have even been preferable. I had a similar scenario in next temp job which truly was temp and basically, we got told and we were able to see out the day which is relatively decent and they didn't tell us like some gibbering idiot either. Just calm, professional etc.

[Would rather not be named]

More importantly it will probably say something about not being paid if you don't have a signed time sheet which will trump the notice period.

Ha notice period?? In this role? Try two to five mins! But cheers I will have a read of my Terms of engagement and see what's what there.

[Would rather not be named]

Nowt to do with NDAs, everything to do with contracting.

Take a look at your contract, it probably says something about notice periods.

Cheers, yeah will have a look. Wasn't technically called a contract but as mentioned terms of engagement but semantics maybed.