Help for newbie

[mum]

My 20 year old son was made redundant 2 weeks ago from his first and only job.
He was offered a contract for 4-6 weeks thro a job agency who insist he signs up with Giant. I have read his contract and am confused................most of it is standard b******t but I don't understand why he has to give notice to Giant - not just to the assignment.

Please can somebody explain it in easy language to me. He started work on Monday so he needs to either sign or reject the contract soooooon.

If it makes a difference he does not want to be a contractor long term - but this was too good an opportunity to miss.

Thanks

Mum

[HankWangford]

My 20 year old son was made redundant 2 weeks ago from his first and only job.
He was offered a contract for 4-6 weeks thro a job agency who insist he signs up with Giant. I have read his contract and am confused................most of it is standard b******t but I don't understand why he has to give notice to Giant - not just to the assignment.

Please can somebody explain it in easy language to me. He started work on Monday so he needs to either sign or reject the contract soooooon.

If it makes a difference he does not want to be a contractor long term - but this was too good an opportunity to miss.

Thanks

Mum

by starting he has excepted the contract I'm afraid, also name and shame the agency. They should not be insisting who your son should contract through

[DimPrawn]

My 20 year old son was made redundant 2 weeks ago from his first and only job.
He was offered a contract for 4-6 weeks thro a job agency who insist he signs up with Giant. I have read his contract and am confused................most of it is standard b******t but I don't understand why he has to give notice to Giant - not just to the assignment.

Please can somebody explain it in easy language to me. He started work on Monday so he needs to either sign or reject the contract soooooon.

If it makes a difference he does not want to be a contractor long term - but this was too good an opportunity to miss.

Thanks

Mum

He's not a contractor, he's a very naughty boy!

[SallyAnne]

by starting he has excepted the contract I'm afraid, also name and shame the agency. They should not be insisting who your son should contract through

Accepted

[HankWangford]

Accepted

fleety??

[mum]

He's not a contractor, he's a very naughty boy!

He is in my opinion too young to start contracting - this is more of a temp assignment till he finds a job with some training attached.....................but why is he a naughty boy?

[thunderlizard]

Having started might actually work in his favour if he doesn't want to use Giant
(a) if he's already started making the end client happy, the agency would probably rather lose whatever kickback they're getting from Giant than lose your boy's revenue-generating services
(b) Hank's right, starting working to the contract is as good as signing it, but if Giant's not mentioned it makes them easy to cut out.

I'm not an umbrella contractor so don't know exactly what the notice period is about, but if Giant's going to be his employer then I suppose they'd want a few weeks notice if he was going to quit them.

If you can combine card (a) with a bit of pressure coming back down from the end client too, you can probably dispense with Giant. What's the worst that could happen? He has to move back in with you for a couple of weeks before starting the whole process again with a bit more knowledge.

[HankWangford]

He is in my opinion too young to start contracting - this is more of a temp assignment till he finds a job with some training attached.....................but why is he a naughty boy?

never too young. What does he do, also I'd get onto the agency. Dont take no shat from them, advising who to contract through is akin to you telling them to bank with the bank of india

[cojak]

He is in my opinion too young to start contracting - this is more of a temp assignment till he finds a job with some training attached.....................but why is he a naughty boy?

Not a Monty Python fan, are you?

[thunderlizard]

I was 20 when I started contracting.

But yes, I am a complete winger and ten years down the line I have long abandoned any hope of getting a permanent job with anybody else.