Employed by security agency but contract lost. Where do I stand.

marybelle01

sharkmeister wrote: »

But surely her 5 years at the same place has got to have some standing. If my company asked me to relocate to a different office and I though it was unreasonable they would have to give me 1 weeks notice for every year I've been employed there to move or offer me redundancy. Surely she has some sort of protection from this. She's basically been told you have no work now, thanks for the last five years. Surely that is wrong?

It might be wrong but it isn't necessarily illegal! I know I keep repeating this - the reason being because it is the answer! - but it depends what her contract with the employer says. Simply being in a place does not give any rights - it is the contract that does that (and the law of course).


Right now we don't know is she is an employee or an agency worker; whether she has guaranteed hours; whether it is a zero hours contract; whether there is a relocation clause.... and it seems that you don't either. All we know is that someone who isn't her employer told her that they had terminated the contract with the employer and so they didn't need her. We don't even know what her actual employer has told her to do.

sharkmeister

marybelle01 wrote: »

It might be wrong but it isn't necessarily illegal! I know I keep repeating this - the reason being because it is the answer! - but it depends what her contract with the employer says. Simply being in a place does not give any rights - it is the contract that does that (and the law of course).


Right now we don't know is she is an employee or an agency worker; whether she has guaranteed hours; whether it is a zero hours contract; whether there is a relocation clause.... and it seems that you don't either. All we know is that someone who isn't her employer told her that they had terminated the contract with the employer and so they didn't need her. We don't even know what her actual employer has told her to do.

Thanks Mary. I'm still trying to find out about the full details of her contract and whether its zero hours etc. So will update when I find out more.

With regards to what her employer has told her to do, all they have said is they are investigating it and nothing else. They have not advised whether she will get paid or not for this weekend. It seems like they may well have been unaware about what was going on.

All I'm trying to do is establish what entitlements if any my wife will get. At the moment its looking like not a lot.

marybelle01

sharkmeister wrote: »

Thanks Mary. I'm still trying to find out about the full details of her contract and whether its zero hours etc. So will update when I find out more.

With regards to what her employer has told her to do, all they have said is they are investigating it and nothing else. They have not advised whether she will get paid or not for this weekend. It seems like they may well have been unaware about what was going on.

All I'm trying to do is establish what entitlements if any my wife will get. At the moment its looking like not a lot.

There you go again, running of with assumptions! You might be right. Honestly, given the way things are going with employment these days, you probably are. But please stop assuming stuff! To quote a poster who used to post here (and whose site you were referred to, so I'll save her the trouble of saying it...) "Have you asked the employer?" I know it would be so much easier and nicer if employers just volunteered information and so on, but they often don't. So if they haven't "advised her" what will happen, she needs to ask for an answer.


I don't really know a lot about security firms, but I do know that some employ people directly as employees, and some do operate as "agencies" (which can certainly reduce the rights of workers they use). The problem is that you still don't seem to know the exact employment relationship, and nobody else can tell you that (although we might take a good guess if we knew anything at all about the contract).


I know this must be very upsetting for her and you, but the problem is that we are all guessing at everything. We don't have a single fact except for the fact that there appears to be a dispute between her employer and their client in relationship to the terms of the contract between them - something that your wife isn't a party to. Trying to find out what is happening with that contract is a pointless waste of your time - trying to find out what happens to the employment contract (assuming it is one - which I can't assume!) isn't.