Originally posted by Notascooby
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It may be worth asking the question, if you're brave, as to why they wish to do this. The 'company policy' line suggests they are treating all contractor staff as true temps. Who knows really.....
if you're not close to the end of your contract, I'd not agree to the amendments citing its a change to the terms and conditions without any compensatory change in rate. You could argue that the reduced notice period increases your risk on the opportunity and consequently the rate, which was based on a 30 day notice period, will therefore be increased by XX (pick a number that isn't stupid).
Whatever you do on rate above, another consideration I always apply to notice periods - especially where its so lop sided as most seem to be - is that for notice periods of ZERO, I request the agency clearly state 2 things against that:
a) The circumstances under which that notice period will be executed (e.g. End of Project, Client Budget Exhausted, etc)
b) That the termination is undertaken by 'mutual agreement'
By including the above (and I've had more success on this than not), you limit the ability of the agency / client to simply ditch the contract without consideration, which is what the 30 days protects you from to some degree. Otherwise, with a zero notice period and no limitations to its causality, you might as well have no contract because its worthless in my view.
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