probation period

christo1

my 6 months probation period has been extended for 2 more months: is it legal?

hcb42

yes, if your contract allows it (in UK?)

ableandy

Yes it is, you should have been told why it has been extended and what you need to do to become permanent.

DVardysShadow

christo1 wrote: »

my 6 months probation period has been extended for 2 more months: is it legal?

It would be legal to sack you at any time during your probation, so extending probation should be easier to deal with.

If you know what you have to do to pass probation, then do it. If they are just mucking you about, with no real intention of taking you on permanently, then look for another job.

Uncertain

A probation period has very little meaning in law.

You have no protection from unlawful dismissal (apart from discrimination etc) during the first year so, in a sense, it hardly matters if the probation period is six or eight or ten months.

westv

Uncertain wrote: »

A probation period has very little meaning in law.

You have no protection from unlawful dismissal (apart from discrimination etc) during the first year so, in a sense, it hardly matters if the probation period is six or eight or ten months.

That's what I thought too.
When I went for an interview last year I asked about any probationary period and they said that, in reality, something like that doesn't actually exist anymore.

SueC_2

Uncertain wrote: »

A probation period has very little meaning in law.

You have no protection from unlawful dismissal (apart from discrimination etc) during the first year so, in a sense, it hardly matters if the probation period is six or eight or ten months.

Yep, I'm with this. The whole of your first year is pretty much a probationary period, regardless of what shorter time your employers have told you.

Unless they are simply trying to wriggle out of a pay increase that was offered contingent on satisfactory completion of your probabtionary period, then I would take the extension of the probationary period to mean that you need to improve your performance well before your first year is up.