Should company pay?

[jmo21]

I worked with a contractor once who got sacked and was to leave that day.

The client informed him he would be paid 2 weeks notice. He had a typical contract (just like mine).

you won't definitely get it but it can happen.

[SussexSeagull]

That's because they don't understand what they do and what services they offer and don't understand their contract. They are a T&M contractor which is step one, they then get paid that X per day for the work they are to do as per the contract which is step two. You could argue an understanding that a contract can continue without work being done and that the notice period is on the expiry of the contract not the work but 1 and 2 should cover that. Understand all that and no one should think they are due unworked notice. It's pure permatractor thinking. If you don't like it negotiate a clause to honour notice in or negotiate a fixed price contract. Neither of which will happen though.

You might be able to see their line of thinkig but it's wholly wrong.

I didn't say I agreed with it but you see plenty of examples of people who think that way and some examples of people getting paid for a notice period.

[WTFH]

Are you still billing for a second contract in the background at the same time?

Edit: https://forums.contractoruk.com/busi...ce-please.html No, not this one where they took 2 weeks off sick at the end of a contract and may or may not have got paid, they never told us, but a different one

Edit 2: This is the one I was thinking of… https://forums.contractoruk.com/busi...ld-you-do.html