Contract renewals - how late in the day

[chicane]

If I want an extension I usually start making enquiries with the client with about a month to go, usually give the agent a kick at about the same time. It's still not unusuall to have got a verbal agreement to extend from the client but still be waiting for the paperwork from the agency right up to the last minute.

WHS - my extension was agreed verbally over a month ago but the formalities took until at 4:30 on Friday afternoon to sort out.

[RichardCranium]

I mention it to the agent at 4 weeks, then weekly until the last week. Then I go quiet 'cos it's fun to phone them at 4pm on the last day and say "So, do I stay home tomorrow or what?"

I probably have had about half my extension contracts turn up after I have started the extension. I make do with a verbal agreement with the client. Since I have turned up, I am deemed to have accepted the extension, by them allowing me access I can argue they have agreed to it too.

I have long since stopped worrying about contract extensions. I know I leave stuff to the last minute 'cos life is complicated - why can't anyone else?