Re: FN-FORUM: Client making me employee without notice

date posted 24th November 2005 11:51

i reckon someone has just not thought and its a mistake! free thinking at
a university!!

I'm surprised you weren't asked if soeone had thought about what they were
doing.
Probably worth not pursuing for 2 months and then bring it up and get a
better contract ;)




>
> Thanks for the replies so far everyone. I'll do a slight bulk reply /
> more details:
>
> I am a sole trader. I realise this means that my tax / NI should sort
> itself out at the end of the day, but I've had the wrong tax code before
> when I've been an employee and it can cause you to lose out over a tax
> year.
>
> They're not anywhere near 80% of my work so there's no IR35-related
> issues, they're one of many 'mid-sized' projects I've worked for this
> year.
>
> There are other factors that come from this: They've broken my contract
> by doing this. If I'm an employee of their's I don't believe my
> Professional Indemnity Insurance covers my development work for them. I
> don't have a new employment contract with them, so they may decide not
> to pay future invoices, or may me at a lesser rate because that matches
> their pay scale for what they think I do.
>
> I can't just let a client break a contract with me because the HR
> department of one university a member of the organisation happens to
> work at has some ideas on how the tax system might work. If they want to
> change my status they need to tell me first and then renegotiate my
> contract. I have no direct contract with the university in question, my
> contact at the organisation worked at a different university entirely
> when the deal was made.
>
>
> Paul
>
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