As a long term contractor, 30+ years, I recently suffered a weird contract termination by a public sector company in Scotland who had assessed the contract as Outside IR35. The reasons given for the termination was that on a day I was working out of office, with prior agreement of the Client, I was:
‘...not logged on and is therefore neither visible nor contactable.‘
Note: my contract neither states required working times or duration, nor that I be logged on! The ‘visible’ part of the above statement is particularly worrying as it indicates a thought process that equates the lack of online activity with lack of work and the monitoring of such as acceptable.
I’m wondering if such situations are becoming more common as I’ve never heard of one like it?
And I’m obviously interested in any actions that could be take if such was to happen again!
Thoughts anyone?
‘...not logged on and is therefore neither visible nor contactable.‘
Note: my contract neither states required working times or duration, nor that I be logged on! The ‘visible’ part of the above statement is particularly worrying as it indicates a thought process that equates the lack of online activity with lack of work and the monitoring of such as acceptable.
I’m wondering if such situations are becoming more common as I’ve never heard of one like it?
And I’m obviously interested in any actions that could be take if such was to happen again!
Thoughts anyone?
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