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Ive only signed a couple of contacts ever, where the company really wanted it and were not forgetting. I may be wrong but the offer letter is enough to insist
by goodlinks 4y ago
Ive only signed a couple of contacts ever, where the company really wanted it and were not forgetting.
I may be wrong but the offer letter is enough to insist your first paycheck and from there on in its obvious the company thinks you are an employee therefor subject to all employment law, most of which is about not changing the staus quo without due process. E.g. In the EU holiday pay cannot be lower than the previous 13 wk average doesnt matter what your contract says.
Employment law as far as i have seen in the UK (thanks to the EU) is all you are ever going to get anyway in any tight situation. Anything else in a contract is likely only gling to be an attempt to reduce that liability (which then in turn often invalidates the whole thing anyways).
- troad 4y agoUK law is common law, which is different from the civil law systems practised in continental Europe. Importantly, the theory of contract differs - in the UK anything can be a contract, provided there’s certain elements like an exchange (the legal term is consideration). This isn’t the case on the continent, where contracts must fit into prescribed types. Working without a contract would be so utterly alien to the mindset here on the continent. If you don’t have a work contract, which of the seventy-four different pension schemes do you fall under? How do you register your new job with your mandatory “public” health insurance? What social security ‘status’ is recorded for you in the centralised national register of inhabitants? I mean, I recently needed a notarised copy of my rental contract just to register my change of address with the government, which is mandatory here every time you move. This is not a system that deals well with “yeah, I don’t have any papers for that”.