Hi all,
I have an urgent query and thought someone here may be able to offer advice.
It's a bit of a long story, I'll try to keep it concise:
My girlfriend (Taiwanese national) was made redundant in feb from a large UK architecture firm. She decided to work her redundancy in order to be able to remain in the UK. The redundancy officially ends today and she'd planned to return to Taiwan on the 7th July to take a job offer there.
However, yesterday she received an email saying that they'd like her to return on her original contract. Sounds great, except that we were a little suspicious that they were merely fulfilling a legal requirement in order to begin recruiting again and that they may let her go at the end of the contract (mid Aug). If they did that she would have lost the offer in Taiwan and would have to leave anyway.
After badgering the HR dept they gave us the following confirmation:
"Further to our conversation, just to confirm that we will issue you with a permanent contract once your current fixed term contract expires.
Please confirm how you wish to proceed."
So my questions are:
-Is it likely this is a legal requirement that they are fulfilling?
-Does this email confirmation of an extension of contract carry any legal weight? We are suspicious because this company has a history of taking advantage of it's staff.
All pretty urgent as she's due to either fly home or begin work on tuesday!
Thanks very much in advance
Jim
I have an urgent query and thought someone here may be able to offer advice.
It's a bit of a long story, I'll try to keep it concise:
My girlfriend (Taiwanese national) was made redundant in feb from a large UK architecture firm. She decided to work her redundancy in order to be able to remain in the UK. The redundancy officially ends today and she'd planned to return to Taiwan on the 7th July to take a job offer there.
However, yesterday she received an email saying that they'd like her to return on her original contract. Sounds great, except that we were a little suspicious that they were merely fulfilling a legal requirement in order to begin recruiting again and that they may let her go at the end of the contract (mid Aug). If they did that she would have lost the offer in Taiwan and would have to leave anyway.
After badgering the HR dept they gave us the following confirmation:
"Further to our conversation, just to confirm that we will issue you with a permanent contract once your current fixed term contract expires.
Please confirm how you wish to proceed."
So my questions are:
-Is it likely this is a legal requirement that they are fulfilling?
-Does this email confirmation of an extension of contract carry any legal weight? We are suspicious because this company has a history of taking advantage of it's staff.
All pretty urgent as she's due to either fly home or begin work on tuesday!
Thanks very much in advance
Jim
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