>>>>>Interesting article http://www.contractoruk.com/news/002673.html
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>>>>>I'm suprised people put up with being treated like that.
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>>>>To be honest, I'm a bit underwhelmed by that article. Having done contract work for 8 years out of my career, there are no guarantees. You expect every day to be your last - and it could be - and hope that it lasts to your next mortgage payment. It's what you sign up for. These contractors had no problem agreeing to work for the company. The company does not care them, and they should know that. It's part of the bargain. To be honest, permanent employees aren't much better off, they just don't know it. At least as a contractor, you know the score upfront.
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>>>I've done contract work over here for many years and have never and would never expect to be told "don't come in next week". I do take holidays but that always arranged in consultation with the client. This sort of thing sounds more like a zero hours contract which we tend to get here only in fast food outlets like McCrap.
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>>>Nick
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>>Then consider yourself incredibly fortunate. You must be the proverbial exception to the rule. Your contracts must have some sort of exclusion to the usual "...may be terminiated without notice..." clause. Good for you. All the one's I've had - not McCrap, whatever that implies - did not have those exclusions. Usually we would get a week's notice, but it wasn't required. Everyone thinks the company should take care of them. Then they are put-out when they find out that the company doesn't really care. Of course, I don't mean you; you've always had those special elite contracts and worked for caring companies. I can see why you might have a slightly different perspective...
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>Sounds like a cultural difference between the UK and US job markets to me. I think most UK contractors would have the same experience as me.

I wondered about that.