Specific purpose contract terminated - Can i sou?

Mark27

Hi, i hope its ok to post this here


I began working on a fixed purpose contract (telecoms) for a large corporation in Dublin city center 23 months ago. The specific purpose(s) as stated in my contract were all day to day tasks that had been on going in work before i started and are all still ongoing since my contract has been terminated. So i never worked on any paticular project as such, my work was mostly just general stuff.

I received word just before christmas, when a senior manager shouted accross the floor to me that 'it looked like i was out the door at the end of janurary' because of budget etc.

Shortly after the christmas break i had annual review with same senior manager and i received an excellent report, signed and sent off to HR.

I then received an email from the same manager, around the first week of Janurary saying that i was to be let go at the end of the month because another telecom project (project A) that had finished up a couple of months previously had come to an end. It went on to say that i had been taken on as backfill staff to this project, so because it was completed my job was too.

During my entire time here i have never worked on Project A and in fact never even spoke to the project manager until i was with the company about a year and a half. I know very little about contract law etc but am i correct in the belief that it should have stated i was being brought in as backfill for 'project A' and would be let go when completed, as none of my stated purposes have actually come to an end.

Does this mean i am entitled to do anything? Would it maybe be possible to threaten them legally and try and get another contract for 12 months out of them? Im in my second week of unemployment and have been working in the industry for almost four years after getting a job almost immediately after college.

Anyone got any suggestions?