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Contract question

  • 20-04-2012 1:11pm
    #1
    kylith
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,737 ✭✭✭✭


    I'm currently working in a job with a 3 month rolling contract (Feb - end Apr). I have an interview with a different company next week, and the job they're advertising is to start at the beginning of May. My contract runs out at the end of April.

    Am I correct in thinking that if I get the other job I can just tell my current employer that I don't wish to renew my contract, and not have to work the 4 weeks notice stipulated in the contract? If I don't renew the contract I'm not bound by the terms in it, right?


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  • #2
    nicechick!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 440 ✭✭nicechick!


    kylith wrote: »
    I'm currently working in a job with a 3 month rolling contract (Feb - end Apr). I have an interview with a different company next week, and the job they're advertising is to start at the beginning of May. My contract runs out at the end of April.

    Am I correct in thinking that if I get the other job I can just tell my current employer that I don't wish to renew my contract, and not have to work the 4 weeks notice stipulated in the contract? If I don't renew the contract I'm not bound by the terms in it, right?

    Yes your right


  • #3
    Hannah2011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41 ✭Hannah2011


    I have a fixed term contract and it specifies that I must give one months notice at the end of the contract and they must give me one month also - but I'm not sure how enforceable it is...

    I also have a question - as I said i'm on a fixed term contract in quite a competitive industry, my contract states that I can't move to a company that provides similar services to mine for a period of 6 months after leaving, how enforceable is this? Surely if they don't continue my contract they can't exclude me from getting another job in an area where my skills are??? Any thoughts??


  • #4
    kilburn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,912 ✭✭✭kilburn


    I would not worry about that if they took you to court no judge would enforce the stopping of your right to earn and provide for your family, a lot of those clauses are rarely enforced.
    Hannah2011 wrote: »
    I have a fixed term contract and it specifies that I must give one months notice at the end of the contract and they must give me one month also - but I'm not sure how enforceable it is...

    I also have a question - as I said i'm on a fixed term contract in quite a competitive industry, my contract states that I can't move to a company that provides similar services to mine for a period of 6 months after leaving, how enforceable is this? Surely if they don't continue my contract they can't exclude me from getting another job in an area where my skills are??? Any thoughts??


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