New contract to be awarded. Agency dont play ball

[NotAllThere]

Call their bluff. Tell them you'll not extend if they don't agree to the changes. But you have to be prepared to walk. Oh - and the handcuff clause in your original contract will still be in force.

[pscont]

The points others are making and I am making is that you are going to struggle to change contract terms now when offered an extension. You negotiate terms before you accept the contract for the first time.

It is not an extension it is a new contract for the same role.

[pscont]

Call their bluff. Tell them you'll not extend if they don't agree to the changes. But you have to be prepared to walk. Oh - and the handcuff clause in your original contract will still be in force.

Question was, if I want to stay with them, but they make it impossible with the clauses in the contract, and I am given no choice but to walk, does this mean the handcuff clause is void?

[LondonManc]

The clauses clearly matter yet you won't reveal them.

[WordIsBond]

Question was, if I want to stay with them, but they make it impossible with the clauses in the contract, and I am given no choice but to walk, does this mean the handcuff clause is void?

Were the clauses in the old contract? Are you objecting to changes, or to stuff you agreed to last time?

You MIGHT possibly have a case if they are trying to put new terms on you that are clearly intended to make it unacceptable to renew through them. Maybe. Probably not, but maybe.

Won't matter, though. If you try to go with the client through another agency, the agency will threaten the client that you are violating the handcuff, the client won't want the hassle, and you'll be terminated.

If they have added new clauses that make it unacceptable, tell the client so. But you'll have to stop playing coy and actually tell them what those unacceptable clauses are, and if they think you are being silly, you're stuck. If the client thinks they are being unreasonable, then the client may talk to them or tell you to go to one of their other agencies -- and then it's the client deciding, not you.

If the clauses to which you object aren't new, just forget it. Either accept them or walk away. You shouldn't have accepted them in the first place if they aren't acceptable.

[northernladuk]

Question was, if I want to stay with them, but they make it impossible with the clauses in the contract, and I am given no choice but to walk, does this mean the handcuff clause is void?

No. It was your choice to walk.

[SueEllen]

It is not an extension it is a new contract for the same role.

Which is also called an extension.