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Melinafan
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12 week contract

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Wonder if anyone can help. I'm on a fixed term 12 week contract which is due to expire in two weeks time. Thought my managers would have given me some kind of indication as to whether or not it will be renewed. Some other people in my office have said if it is renewed you will get a two week gap before coming back, why is this?
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Re: 12 week contract

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You're not an agency worker are you,if you're not,ignore the 2 week thing,rule of thumb seems to be that the managers forget to see you guys and the contract keeps rolling on.
Have a word with a manger to jog his memory.
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Re: 12 week contract

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Melinafan wrote:Wonder if anyone can help. I'm on a fixed term 12 week contract which is due to expire in two weeks time. Thought my managers would have given me some kind of indication as to whether or not it will be renewed. Some other people in my office have said if it is renewed you will get a two week gap before coming back, why is this?

It's some legal loophole RM use. Something like, they have to give you sick/holiday pay if you work longer than 12 weeks continuously at a workplace! :Sick
Union what Union? Do we have a union?
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Re: 12 week contract

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Judgee wrote:
Melinafan wrote:Wonder if anyone can help. I'm on a fixed term 12 week contract which is due to expire in two weeks time. Thought my managers would have given me some kind of indication as to whether or not it will be renewed. Some other people in my office have said if it is renewed you will get a two week gap before coming back, why is this?

It's some legal loophole RM use. Something like, they have to give you sick/holiday pay if you work longer than 12 weeks continuously at a workplace! :Sick
:sad: Yes, sadly, a number of firms employ this 12 week thing-including the tax office.
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I don't think he's an Agency worker,his mates have the wrong end of the stick if he isn't.
I Wrote-During Covid-Which is still relevant now
It's good to get these types of threads, the ridiculous my manager said bollox, so we can reassure ourselves that while the world is falling apart, Royal Mail managers are still being the low-life C***S they have always been.
My BFF Clash
The daily grind of having to argue your case with an intellectual pigmy of a line manager is physically and emotionally draining.
keithposty
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Re: 12 week contract

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stokes11eg wrote:
Judgee wrote:
Melinafan wrote:Wonder if anyone can help. I'm on a fixed term 12 week contract which is due to expire in two weeks time. Thought my managers would have given me some kind of indication as to whether or not it will be renewed. Some other people in my office have said if it is renewed you will get a two week gap before coming back, why is this?

It's some legal loophole RM use. Something like, they have to give you sick/holiday pay if you work longer than 12 weeks continuously at a workplace! :Sick
:sad: Yes, sadly, a number of firms employ this 12 week thing-including the tax office.

the 12 week rule is the agency workers directive, if a temporary works past 12 weeks the temporary worker has to be paid the same wage and benefits as a full contractual worker employed by the company
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Re: 12 week contract

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He's an RM employee on a fixed term contract.
His mates are talking bollocks.
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