Notice period and contract termination

[malvolio]

PMFJI but I seem to read this phrase here more and more, "you don't have to accept any work that is offered and the client doesn't have to provide it". But is it not so that if the contract specifies work and you signed it, then you have already accepted to perform that work? So you are not generally free to refuse work and do nothing or even spend your days elsewhere?

Depends what you signed up for. If you agreed to do anything thrown your way for any project, then no, you can't contractually refuse. But that is precisely why the JLJ case was lost; you have to be contracted to deliver an agreed schedule of work items or you lose the D&C arguement.

[Ignis Fatuus]

Depends what you signed up for. If you agreed to do anything thrown your way for any project, then no, you can't contractually refuse. But that is precisely why the JLJ case was lost; you have to be contracted to deliver an agreed schedule of work items or you lose the D&C arguement.

Yes, but all I meant was that if the contract itself specifies work, and you haven't completed it yet, then you do have to accept it. Or more precisely, you already have accepted it, so you gave to finish it, and only then are you free to go.

[Ignis Fatuus]

Depends what you signed up for. If you agreed to do anything thrown your way for any project, then no, you can't contractually refuse. But that is precisely why the JLJ case was lost; you have to be contracted to deliver an agreed schedule of work items or you lose the D&C arguement.

Separate question, separate reply:

What about a contract that is generally speaking in the nature of support? It may not specify dates and milestones, but it still doesn't mean that you agreed to do anything thrown your way; you agreed (say) to provide a certain service for a certain period, not just to do whatever they want. OTOH it probably won't have milestones and dates, except for the contract end date.