This is really pissing me off.
My current contract ended yesterday. The clients want to extend me for another six months. I'm happy to stay there for another six months.
However, since I started there in April, the clients have outsourced the running of their temporary workers HR department to a third party. And that third party want to impose new standard contracts on everyone they deal with. And this new contract imposes terms that any contractor who knows anything about IR35 would run a mile from.
I'm sitting at home trying to work this out as appearing in the office could be seen as accepting the new contract.
Don't you just hate middle men.
Update: I'm back in the office today. I heard yesterday that we've got an extension on the old contract until the end of the week in order to try and sort out the contract. And this morning I've heard that the extension might well be... er... extended to one month.
Hi Dave,
Unless your socialist ideals prevent it, you need to get into a decent offshore scheme! I'm now an IT Consultant for a partnership on the Isle of Man, and the Paymaster General can take a running jump :-) Drop me a line if you want more details.
Jim Gillespie (ex-London.pm)