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[jonahtest2]

[QUOTE=DaveB;303639]Yes. Check your contract. If it's pukka there will be no notice period on the client side. They can ask you to leave on the spot. This is a good thing.

OK at the risk of sounding an even greater noob, why is it good that they can end with no notice.

Failing that spend the next week planning your work load and produce a nice road map to completion with relavent milestones etc that just happens to take 3 months. Present this to your PM. Get every milestone done ahead of schedule and spend the rest of the time posting crap on here. You'll soon get the hang of it

A Sound plan

[bjayakody]

OK at the risk of sounding an even greater noob, why is it good that they can end with no notice.

Means your contract is IR35 safe.

If the company is not a total cowboy outfit, they will just keep you around doing odds and ends to fill out your contract.

I've had a few 3 month contracts where I've finished the work in the first couple of days, then spent the next couple of months finding work for myself.

As long as you don't just show up to work and do nothing, you'll be fine.

[shoes]

Is the estimation for the amount of time required too long because the existing staff are bad at their jobs / a bunch of slackers? Don't be too much of a superstar in their eyes, they won't like it. Be better than them so they think it was a good idea to get you in, but don't be as crap as them or worse so they think you aren't worth having. Its a tricky balance. I always do too well in the first couple of weeks, being eager to impress as typically there are people checking you are doing what they want and are capable. You then need to throttle back to just above their capability.

Daily/hourly rate contracting isn't about getting the job done, it's about taking their money. Sad but true! We'd all prefer to live in a 'fixed rate for the job' world but middle management incompetence prevents it.

[TheFaQQer]

Means your contract is IR35 safe.

Not necessarily. It may help as part of an IR35 defence, but it does not mean that it is IR35 safe. If I had a standard contract of employment, but could not terminate it, it would not be IR35 safe.

As long as you don't just show up to work and do nothing, you'll be fine.

That's not necessarily an IR35 pointer, either. I'm paid to provide expert advice and guidance - during the early phases of testing, there isn't much of this to do, but I need to be available to help out. So, I'm at work, with nothing to do, still IR35 safe.