Maternity Cover Role

[WordIsBond]

How's your war chest for sitting on the bench a while? It's October, how many contracts open up in your sector in the run-up to Christmas? Pass on this and you might be waiting until Jan/Feb. Maybe you have the reserves and want to go skiing anyway and that's not a big deal.

Maybe the short commute is worth a lot to you.

Maybe you could get them to go 10% higher and that would make it worth it to you?

Those are factors only you can decide.

Can you get them to split it into two contracts, one that lists specific projects and the other is "fill in where needed"? If so, you could have most of this outside IR35 and the "fill in where needed" contract is inside.

A lot of women take more than 6 months maternity leave, if this works well for them they may be looking for longer. Of course you can walk after 6 months if you don't like it or the pay is just too low, but if you can get the terms better, this could be good for you long term and another place that might call you back someday. Never hurts to build up your "happy former client" list.

[Big Blue Plymouth]

Have you tried negotiating these terms? If they are willing to change this then you could turn this into a bit of a plus for IR35 purposes.

E.g. if the person you are covering is on a team of 5 who share project and BAU work, but you can specify in you SoW that you work on only one (or even a few) projects and nothing more then get rid of this shadowing nonsense it's not bad at all, provided they stick to it.

Sell yourself as an expert and that you think they'll be able to deliver the projects quicker with you focussed on the area you specialise in and the team picking up the slack on BAU work.

I'd have that down as an IR35 win if you can pull it off.

I've had another chat with them & it would appear that I'm going to be involved in 3 separate projects.

The said they have no problem with the agency detailing these 3 projects in a schedule with some kind of additional clause along the lines of "...and any additional duties subject to the prior consent of the service provider".

Now to see if the agency will play ball. It's Hays...

By the way, yes the short commute is worth a lot to me as I'm in the process of moving house. There's no way I could support that with a staying away from home role or a 2 hour each way commute (which is the norm for me)

[missinggreenfields]

Now to see if the agency will play ball.

They might

It's Hays...

Ah

[Big Blue Plymouth]

Contract amended & approved by Hays

So, not exactly boomed because it's way under my normal day rate but it does at least see me through to April & it's 15 miles down the road.

[northernladuk]

Contract amended & approved by Hays

So, not exactly boomed because it's way under my normal day rate but it does at least see me through to April & it's 15 miles down the road.

Sounds like a boom all day long to me. We do so many short term gig's you get the odd not so golden one. It's exactly what we do and any chance to get an invoice in deserves a