Client site parking and travel time question

[d000hg]

Other way round, they've changed the circumstances and so it's your companies right to terminate early.

Not if parking isn't mentioned in the contract.

[stek]

You're a contractor, a separate business entity, not a protected member of their establishment. You have no rights; if you want rights, go permanent. If you haven't grasped that yet, you're in the wrong trade.

Or, you are a humble employee of a consulting company and not a separate business entity, remember, you are NOT in legal terms the same entity as your company.

So it's question as to whether you go in there with a self-employed mindset or play the dumb act as an employee like all the others on site. I think I prefer the latter because in my experience playing the 'I'm a Director of a company, blah, blah...' pisses off the locals but YMMV...

Just thinking aloud link....

[malvolio]

Or, you are a humble employee of a consulting company and not a separate business entity, remember, you are NOT in legal terms the same entity as your company.

So it's question as to whether you go in there with a self-employed mindset or play the dumb act as an employee like all the others on site. I think I prefer the latter because in my experience playing the 'I'm a Director of a company, blah, blah...' pisses off the locals but YMMV...

Just thinking aloud link....

Think a little differently, perhaps...?

The point is you do not go in thinking that you are anybody's employee. So you don't demand anything that is not explicitly listed in your contract. And the contract is between Your Co and the Client; if it's anything else I really hope you're paying your dues under IR35.

The client here is making things difficult, possibly with good (to them) reason, so the OP needs to negotiate - not demand - a revised arrangement within the confines of the contracts they've signed up to.

And FWIW my client's are under no illusions that I'm anything other than an independent.

[SueEllen]

Or, you are a humble employee of a consulting company and not a separate business entity, remember, you are NOT in legal terms the same entity as your company.

No but while you are an employee of that company, you are also an officer of that company who makes legally binding and strategic decisions for that company.

So it's question as to whether you go in there with a self-employed mindset or play the dumb act as an employee like all the others on site. I think I prefer the latter because in my experience playing the 'I'm a Director of a company, blah, blah...' pisses off the locals but YMMV...

Just thinking aloud link....

You can use the self-employed mindset as there are various ways you can be self-employed and that doesn't necessarily mean you are a director - someone who posts on here is a partner.

There is no need to piss people of by boasting about it just get the work done, and know when to make it clear to the client's managers that you aren't one of their employees i.e. planning days off.