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Contract before you start

  • 14-01-2013 06:07PM
    #1
    CatFromHue
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 18,567 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    How important is it for you to see your contract before you actually start work?

    Say you've agreed the salary a few weeks before your start date and have been told the contract will be forwarded to you before you start but you don't receive it before you start, even after you asking for it to be sent on.


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  • #2
    helimachoptor
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 21,874 Mod ✭✭✭✭helimachoptor


    Don't start unless you have your terms, conditions and pay/benefits in writing.

    If you've started, I'd go to the head of HR and flag it to them


  • #3
    onlyup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53 ✭✭onlyup


    It's important because it puts in writing an agreement for lots of different things including salary, time off, working hours, overtime pay or not. Technically by not making that agreement, they could screw you over. They could turn around now and say your salary is less than what was agreed.

    Big company or small company as a matter of interest?


  • #4
    CatFromHue
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 18,567 Mod ✭✭✭✭CatFromHue


    Thanks for your advice.

    I was mainly wanting to see if I was over reacting to be honest as I'm at the stage now where I think I'm going to have to say I'm not starting without seeing the contract first. I've had a bad experience in the past about starting without having seen the contract and would be reluctant to do so again, especially as the job is in a different part of the country so I have to move down and take all the costs that this entails.

    In general the company haven't handled the recruitment process very well and the salary they're offering is very low too. It's a medium sized company but is well established in it's area and is growing.


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