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frankieboy
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fixed term temporary contract

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could someone out there please explain to me this grey area concerning temporary contracts. I have now been on a fixed term temp contract for 2 and a half years now, should i now be given a permanent contract? The grey area is whether it is 2 or 4 years on a temp contract and then be made up. Looking at the mtsf it says 2 years. I am on a 30 hour a week contract but just recently 2 new people in our office were employed on permanent contracts, do i have grounds for going through the grievance procedure? Not nice these letters i keep getting telling me when my contract ends which " reflects our expectations of when the need for your services is likely to come to an end"
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You should have been offered one of the jobs first mate, get that grievance in!!! :no no
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Stickie in this forum...
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Re: fixed term temporary contract

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frankieboy wrote:could someone out there please explain to me this grey area concerning temporary contracts. I have now been on a fixed term temp contract for 2 and a half years now, should i now be given a permanent contract? The grey area is whether it is 2 or 4 years on a temp contract and then be made up. Looking at the mtsf it says 2 years. I am on a 30 hour a week contract but just recently 2 new people in our office were employed on permanent contracts, do i have grounds for going through the grievance procedure? Not nice these letters i keep getting telling me when my contract ends which " reflects our expectations of when the need for your services is likely to come to an end"
I would get your union rep to look into this, in our office some staff had 20 hr contracts, but new staff were brought in on 25hr contracts and I was told this wasn't fair, hours should have allocated to existing staff first. Happened before my time as union rep, but isn't happening anymore.