Does end of Fixed Term Contract constitute Dismissal?

DawnRose8

My 6 month contract ends in a month and my employer has given me notice the contract won't be extended, as there won't be the volume of work to accommodate me.
Will this be considered 'dismissal' on my employment record?
Should I give notice in order to protect my record?
I have a new job lined up, but it's less money so I don't want to leave early and lose out financially.
If I give a months notice in writing, can I leave on the same day/or even one day early and protect my employment record?
Thanks

KatrinaWaves

No its not dismissal. You would just write 'end of FTC' on your CV.

There really isn't such thing as an 'employment record' which is recorded anywhere.

Comms69

DawnRose8 wrote: »

My 6 month contract ends in a month and my employer has given me notice the contract won't be extended, as there won't be the volume of work to accommodate me.
Will this be considered 'dismissal' on my employment record?
Should I give notice in order to protect my record?
I have a new job lined up, but it's less money so I don't want to leave early and lose out financially.
If I give a months notice in writing, can I leave on the same day/or even one day early and protect my employment record?
Thanks

Legally it is a dismissal, but there is no employment record

getmore4less

No more work.

Dismissed by reason of redundancy.

Less than 2 years no payments.

On your CV fixed term contract.

Masomnia

I'd just put end of FTC, although legally yes it counts as a dismissal.

TELLIT01

'End of Fixed Term Contract' is the most accurate description of the reason the job ended. Yes it is dismissal, but only in so much as you were contracted for a period and that period has now ended.

jobbingmusician

Why don't you want it to be a dismissal? If it is for CV reasons, then it certainly isn't a dismissal - you simply put 'end of contract'. I have loads of these on my CV and it has never put a prospective employer off - I stress that I take interim contracts by choice and like having fixed term contracts and troubleshooting.

[Deleted User]

I worked for a very large company last year on a fixed term contract of 9 months that had to end at 6 due to the work being completed and the duration of the contract always had been over egged it turned out.

Any reference from the company simply has never stated I was a fixed term worker/held that particular contract in the first instance. (I actually saw one of the references sought not long after I left) I was given notice, then at the meeting served them with notice and reason for leaving gets written as 'resigned' (it really makes me sad to see) even though I am still in full possession of their orginal poorly worded letter serving notice and had got saved a copy of the job advertisement which had fixed term all over it (and fortunately I nabbed this year's job advert which still proved the dishing out of an FTC on an even worse duration but that's by the by) so strength my case if there ever was a query. Lesson learnt you may actually want to ask what they will write which you are perfectly entitled to do so.

I've no idea how folks get off trying to write about someone who was on a fixed term as if they were a permanent employee and one of the reasons I would never again entertain this type of contract.

Andy_L

It is a redundancy (due to the end of a FTC) not a dismissal. If they've let you work there for more than 2 years you have an entitlement to a redundancy payment.

ETA: thinking about it ISTR that redundancy is, in employment law terms, a form of dismissal anyway.

General_Grant

Andy_L wrote: »

It is a redundancy (due to the end of a FTC) not a dismissal. If they've let you work there for more than 2 years you have an entitlement to a redundancy payment.

ETA: thinking about it ISTR that redundancy is, in employment law terms, a form of dismissal anyway.

I'm afraid "redundancy" is still a dismissal: it is dismissal on the grounds of redundancy.