Requested to leave and GDPR

[Contractor911]

Dear Fellow Contractors,

I have been contracting for a few years now and am still getting used to the policies applied to contractors.
I was employed by a large bank to carry out a supportive role.
My manager wasn't the most pleasant person to work with and often made my time there very difficult.
After two months I was requested to attend a meeting with the in-house recruiters to be informed that my services are no longer required. No reason was given.

Is there something in GDPR which could help me find out what happened?

Thank you for your help

[DaveB]

Dear Fellow Contractors,

I have been contracting for a few years now and am still getting used to the policies applied to contractors.
I was employed by a large bank to carry out a supportive role.
My manager wasn't the most pleasant person to work with and often made my time there very difficult.
After two months I was requested to attend a meeting with the in-house recruiters to be informed that my services are no longer required. No reason was given.

Is there something in GDPR which could help me find out what happened?

Thank you for your help

You can submit a subject access request under article 15 requiring them to provide copies of all information they hold about you including email correspondence and other documentation. Make it clear what information want in the request.

However, what do you expect to achieve from this? Even if you find out why, there is little to nothing you can do about it. If the client wants you gone, you are gone. Thats how contracting works.

[BlasterBates]

I hold the view that these opinions on competence or suitability are completely irrelevant, because this is what you can expect. My view is I don't seek nor heed advice from managers about how good I am or what I could do better.

I remember when we were on a project which totally went wrong and the project leader asked the manager whether he was pleased with him as he'd lost his self-confidence.This was when I realised you should never seek nor want approval from management. Be a politician !!

Ignore and move on.

[northernladuk]

Dear Fellow Contractors,

I have been contracting for a few years now and am still getting used to the policies applied to contractors.

Appears that's not all you haven't gotten used to yet..

I was employed by a large bank to carry out a supportive role.

My manager wasn't the most pleasant person to work with and often made my time there very difficult.

Forget spending time trying to find out what happened. It's totally irrelevant. Absolutely nothing you can do about it even if you do find out so pointless trying.

Leave this one alone and instead spend some time learning how to be a contractor.

[SimonMac]

Appears that's not all you haven't gotten used to yet..



Forget spending time trying to find out what happened. It's totally irrelevant. Absolutely nothing you can do about it even if you do find out so pointless trying.

Leave this one alone and instead spend some time learning how to be a contractor.

Welcome back NLUK, it was a scary 20 or so minutes when you could pass as a decent human being

[northernladuk]

Welcome back NLUK, it was a scary 20 or so minutes when you could pass as a decent human being

This was just a tester to help me ease back in to my routine.

[GJABS]

Is there something in GDPR which could help me find out what happened?

Alternatively you could always ask them verbally. That way you are more likely to get some honest feedback that the client would not risk putting in writing, for fear of legal action.

But as others have said, get outwards, get onwards, and get upwards.

Edit:

After two months I was requested to attend a meeting with the in-house recruiters to be informed that my services are no longer required. No reason was given.

Did you ask them?

[GhostofTarbera]

Dear Fellow Contractors,

I have been contracting for a few years now and am still getting used to the policies applied to contractors.
I was employed by a large bank to carry out a supportive role.
My manager wasn't the most pleasant person to work with and often made my time there very difficult.
After two months I was requested to attend a meeting with the in-house recruiters to be informed that my services are no longer required. No reason was given.

Is there something in GDPR which could help me find out what happened?

Thank you for your help

Ask HR if you were an employee or your union


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[Contractor911]

You can submit a subject access request under article 15 requiring them to provide copies of all information they hold about you including email correspondence and other documentation. Make it clear what information want in the request.

However, what do you expect to achieve from this? Even if you find out why, there is little to nothing you can do about it. If the client wants you gone, you are gone. Thats how contracting works.

I guess i'm curious as to what happened. I have not been in this situation before and really was confused by the news.
It would be interesting to see what comes up via the access of information request.

Thank you

[Contractor911]

Alternatively you could always ask them verbally. That way you are more likely to get some honest feedback that the client would not risk putting in writing, for fear of legal action.

But as others have said, get outwards, get onwards, and get upwards.

Edit:



Did you ask them?

, when being requested to leave, they said they could give me no reason other than my contract was no longer needed. No gross misconducted had been reported.