No entitlement to give notice

[zonkkk]

My current contract does not entitle me to give notice; so I need to stay until the contract expires or the client says there is no more work for me.

Is this pretty common these days?

[northernladuk]

My current contract does not entitle me to give notice; so I need to stay until the contract expires or the client says there is no more work for me.

Is this pretty common these days?

I wouldn't say it's common but is certainly out there and shouldn't be a surprise when it occurs if that makes sense.

[Lance]

there are no clauses for termination at all?

[northernladuk]

there are no clauses for termination at all?

There will be. Just no notice period clause.

[LondonManc]

My current contract does not entitle me to give notice; so I need to stay until the contract expires or the client says there is no more work for me.

Is this pretty common these days?

In IB for certain clients, yes. They'll happily serve notice when they give you a rate cut and start you out on 10% less a few weeks later. Typically they include them to stop you jumping ship post rate-cut.

[zonkkk]

there are no clauses for termination at all?

There are termination clauses, only not from my side (i.e. I can't just leave mid-contract if I decide it's time to move on).

[LondonManc]

There are termination clauses, only not from my side (i.e. I can't just leave mid-contract if I decide it's time to move on).

Why would you decide it's time to move on? Someone catching up with you?

[northernladuk]

Why would you decide it's time to move on? Someone catching up with you?

He walks out the door to the tune of the The Littlest Hobo.

[andyg]

Similar to RBS

There are termination clauses, only not from my side (i.e. I can't just leave mid-contract if I decide it's time to move on).

I had a similar clause with an RBS contract a fair few years ago. My options were:
1) Walk if I found that the contract didn't suit, e.g. people, place, type of project that I was given to work on
2) Stick it out and not renew.

I chose option 1) but told my line manager that I would be going before the end of the contract. He threatened all sorts such as making sure I never worked in the Finance Industry again. Funny thing is, some 20 years later, I'm still working in the Finance Industry and ours being such a small world I've never seen or heard where said line manager is working. But my learned lesson is that I never accept a contract that has such a clause.

[billybiro]

There are termination clauses, only not from my side (i.e. I can't just leave mid-contract if I decide it's time to move on).

But you can simply inform the client that you're "unavailable for work" each and every day between now and the end of the contract.

Just as no work from the client means we can't invoice them for payment, so too does no invoice from you mean that you don't have to work.