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

date posted 24th November 2005 11:55

The project effectively ends in the new year, apart from keeping the
website alive for another couple of years, and I've got one more invoice
due, so unfortunately I can't afford to wait around and see if it all
turns out OK.

Fortunately my contact is being very good about it and has raised the
matter up with various managers at the university, apparently I'm not
the only supplier who's been caught up in this.

Ack!

On 24 Nov 2005 12:08:33 -0000, [EMAIL REMOVED] said:
>
> 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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