Fixed term contract ending next month - query about my rights?

Gayle1983

I started my current job in July last year on a fixed term contract which ends at the end of next month.

My manager is currently submitting a business case to workforce planning to have my role made permanent or extended. Permanent is her preference.

Obviously there are no guarantees and it is feasible that workforce planning might refuse both requests and state there is no need for my job any more.

My question is this, if they decided that there is insufficient work to justify my role, should I automatically be the employee who has to go just because I am on a fixed term contract?

I ask this because shortly after I started a permanent role came up, doing exactly what I am doing now. Despite applying for the job it was given to another girl. We both do the same job. If they decided there is only enough work to justify keeping one of us should we both go into a redundancy pool?

getmore4less

With less than a years service they can just let you go

Jarndyce

getmore4less wrote: »

With less than a years service they can just let you go

Not necessarily so. That could be less favourable treatment on the grounds of fixed term status, depending on the precise facts.

SarEl

Jarndyce wrote: »

Not necessarily so. That could be less favourable treatment on the grounds of fixed term status, depending on the precise facts.

That'd be something of a stretch though with less than 12 months service. It would be highly unlikely to succeed.

Gayle1983

Jarndyce wrote: »

Not necessarily so. That could be less favourable treatment on the grounds of fixed term status, depending on the precise facts.

What sort of facts would determine this?

This is all hypothetical at the moment as I don't know what is going to happen with my contract but want to be in the knowledge of my rights should I be let go.

ffacoffipawb

Gayle1983 wrote: »

What sort of facts would determine this?

This is all hypothetical at the moment as I don't know what is going to happen with my contract but want to be in the knowledge of my rights should I be let go.

Surely the OP had the same rights as a contractor - i.e. virtually none?