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Working for two clients in parallel: Legal and documentations requirements

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    Working for two clients in parallel: Legal and documentations requirements

    Since working from home, there has been availablility and spare time of not travelling to office

    What's your experience or issues facing to work for two contracts/clients at same time dedicating time and working from home?

    - Manager of 1st company is verbally happy with using spare time as long as work is not impacted.
    - Haven't spoken to second company on the topic yet
    - Both contracts are on time and cost & deliverable basis, so they don't care as long as deliverables are achieved.

    So my queries
    1. Have you worked on multiple contracts at same time (i.e in parallel during the weekdays)?
    2. Do we need written permissions from each client?
    3. Any legal obligations or insurances required to do the same?
    Last edited by sojan; 29 June 2020, 12:30.

    #2
    Originally posted by sojan View Post
    1. Have you worked on multiple contracts at same time (i.e in parallel during the weekdays)?
    Yes

    Originally posted by sojan View Post
    2. Do we need written permissions from each client?
    Not necessarily - you are not obligated to inform your clients that you work with other clients but you do need to ensure you manage expectations around delivery timelines and your availability. You should check the contract to make sure it doesn't expect exclusivity.

    Originally posted by sojan View Post
    3. Any legal obligations or insurances required to do the same?
    Not necessarily - if you're working with two clients in the same industry you may fall foul of non-compete covenants in your contract. There are no additional insurance requirements.


    Of course, if you're not acting as a company but are thinking of taking on FTC employment the matters will be entirely different.

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      #3
      Originally posted by ladymuck View Post
      Yes


      Not necessarily - you are not obligated to inform your clients that you work with other clients but you do need to ensure you manage expectations around delivery timelines and your availability. You should check the contract to make sure it doesn't expect exclusivity.


      Not necessarily - if you're working with two clients in the same industry you may fall foul of non-compete covenants in your contract. There are no additional insurance requirements.


      Of course, if you're not acting as a company but are thinking of taking on FTC employment the matters will be entirely different.
      Thanks a lot for sharing your experience.

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        #4
        Originally posted by sojan View Post
        So my queries
        1. Have you worked on multiple contracts at same time (i.e in parallel during the weekdays)?
        2. Do we need written permissions from each client?
        3. Any legal obligations or insurances required to do the same?
        Specific clauses in your current contracts notwithstanding:
        1. Yes
        2. No
        3. No
        Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!

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          #5
          Originally posted by NotAllThere View Post
          Specific clauses in your current contracts notwithstanding:
          1. Yes
          2. No
          3. No
          I nearly did that but this is in the professional forum...

          #oneruleformods

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            #6
            I’ve had 2 full time, 1 20 hour a week + another support contract all at the same time

            Tell them nothing - fill your boots


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              #7
              1/ Yes - it's great until the "part-time" one demands more
              2/ No - if they contractually say you can't, that's sounding more like a contract of employment.
              3/ No - you're simply operating contracts for YourCo in parallel.

              Sounds great until you're burning yourself out working 70 hours a week every week.
              The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he didn't exist

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                #8
                Originally posted by sojan View Post
                Since working from home, there has been availablility and spare time of not travelling to office

                What's your experience or issues facing to work for two contracts/clients at same time dedicating time and working from home?

                - Manager of 1st company is verbally happy with using spare time as long as work is not impacted.
                - Haven't spoken to second company on the topic yet
                - Both contracts are on time and cost & deliverable basis, so they don't care as long as deliverables are achieved.

                So my queries
                1. Have you worked on multiple contracts at same time (i.e in parallel during the weekdays)?
                2. Do we need written permissions from each client?
                3. Any legal obligations or insurances required to do the same?
                On the assumption that you are running a business (IE. a LTD. company), then of course you can. In fact you have a legal responsibility to maximise the profit for your shareholders so to not do so is the wrong course of action.
                Everyone else has basically told you you can. So I'll add a bit more that you should consider.

                1) Have you the skills and capacity to meet the known requirements of both clients?
                2) Have you verified there is no conflict of interest if you work for both clients?
                See You Next Tuesday

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by ladymuck View Post
                  I nearly did that but this is in the professional forum...

                  #oneruleformods
                  Nah, you'd have gotten away with it as well.
                  Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by Lance View Post
                    On the assumption that you are running a business (IE. a LTD. company), then of course you can. In fact you have a legal responsibility to maximise the profit for your shareholders so to not do so is the wrong course of action.
                    Everyone else has basically told you you can. So I'll add a bit more that you should consider.

                    1) Have you the skills and capacity to meet the known requirements of both clients?
                    2) Have you verified there is no conflict of interest if you work for both clients?
                    1. Yes
                    2. One contract exclusively says you can work in other tasks. The other one doesn't say anything.

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