Re: FN-FORUM: Advertising Bastards

date posted 11th January 2006 15:02

On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, Alain Williams wrote:

>
> On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 03:02:25PM -0000, Andy Macnaughton-Jones wrote:
>>
>> Is that not what the Bosman ruling from a few years back to resolve ?
>> Basically restraint of trade ?
>>
>> It's quite common in the IT conractor market (Ben ?) to have a clause
>> limiting you from working for the *SAME* end-company for a period of 12
>> months so that you don't switch agents or go direct to a company.

On a similar note, a friend was working as an office junior via one of
these secretarial agencies. The company decided they'ld take her on
permananent so agreed to the agency's buy-out clause. Hunky dory.
Finshies on Friday as a temp and starts on the Monday as a permie.

Monday comes and goes.

Tuesday comes and a list of redundancies come round including her.

Wednesday she goes back to the agency seeking new work for Monday.


It's a mad world out there .......


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