Job advice

Stephb1986_2

Hi I hope someone here can help me.

I started working for a company at the beginning of May it was firstly a two week trial which I completed and the company was happy with me, my manager then explained to me that I would be on a self employed contract with the company but after a few months will be given a full employment contract.

At first my duties were to cold call, or chase up leads from our call centre in South Africa. After a while my duties changed to doing mainly office work/paperwork letters etc etc with some calling involved but not a lot.

About 3 weeks ago a colleague started making my job very hard for me and in the end I asked my manager to have a word with him, as this was making me very unhappy and I started to look for a new job. My manager made a big deal out of my complaint and took it to the owner of the company and another manager which was higher up in the company than him.

This was on a Thursday and when the colleague came in I was sent home paid because he might of started an argument with me, but I was to return on the Friday, which I did I got on with my work in my office and didn't venture out of it all day and kept away from this colleague.

On the Monday I was out of the office as we had a clinic which was in my new job role instead of being on the phone as much. I was fine at the clinic with my manager and had no problems.

The following day I came in as normal got on with my work but come the afternoon my manager came into my office and told me to leave that I was no longer working there.... I asked him what I had done wrong as I had only got on with my work and wasn't causing any trouble he just said that we could no longer work together and to get my things together and I would be paid until the end of the day.

In my self employed contract it says they have to give me two weeks notice and I have to give them two weeks notice. So I asked him about this and he said he would check with the office manager eventually he brought a letter up saying they are giving me two weeks notice and my employment will end on August 5th but they don't require me to work the two weeks but will pay me for them.

On Friday I emailed the office manager to check if I was getting paid as normal she said that I should of received two weeks money in my account, I checked online banking and eventually some money came through but it was only for the two days work I had done.

I emailed her yesterday but she was off sick so emailed one of the other manangers he was on holiday but is back in today so said he would sort it today or Wednesday.

I'm still non the wiser as to what I did wrong, I made a complaint about someone and I get the sack surely that can't be right? With the way I was employed as self employed but the way they treated me was as an employee. What can I do?

Many Thanks

Steph

missbiggles1

It doesn't sound as if you were genuinely self employed anyway.

Stephb1986_2

missbiggles1 wrote: »

It doesn't sound as if you were genuinely self employed anyway.

I've had to pay my own tax and national insurance that's about it. Fair enough if he gave me a valid reason as to why I was sacked they were happy with my work I just kept my head down and did what I was paid to do

do_i_give_up

unfortunately being self employed means that a contract of work can end at any time with a client (that is essentially what your employer was). it may be a case of this other employee being with the company longer therefore having more employment rights and costing them too much to go through any legal battle. i think you will need to put this down to experience and move forward at least on your C.V you can say last employment was self employed contract with client ended and they wont require a reference.