Fixed term employment contracts

[escapeUK]

I did 6 months of this one.

After that was up they gave me a permanent job.

A month later they made me redundant and i got a 15k payout.

That was a good summer.

How strange given that no redundancy is due until after a year of employment. After that its 1 week for each year served.

[alreadypacked]

How strange given that no redundancy is due until after a year of employment. After that its 1 week for each year served.

You are talking about mandatory payout, there is nothing to stop a company paying out a higher amount.

[Robinho]

How strange given that no redundancy is due until after a year of employment. After that its 1 week for each year served.

Yeah i had no idea why they did that but as you can imagine, i did not hang around to find out, i got my sig on the documents ASAFP.

It might have been an internal policy or there may have been breach of contract because it was so quickly after i signed. They went bankrupt 6 months later.

That's actually what got me into contracting. I had a nice holiday in the US and then upped my certifications and had a warchest to look for that first contract job.