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What support is there for fixed term?
Hi guys,
I was recently dismissed from a 6 month fixed-term contract after 2-3 months. The original agreement with the employer was that they wished to trial cross-site working and if after 6 months it didn't work out, they wouldn't renew, instead they dismissed much sooner with no prior feedback/review at all and had yet to even provide a full job specification, they did honour the one month notice period but the whole process has felt incredibly unfair, shocking and disrespectful, I gave the company serious tangible benefits along with my best efforts and goodwill, meeting all goals and they just said 'bye' despite promising to see the contract through six months.
It's my understanding that this dismissal likely came following a complaint over genuine and constructive feedback, issued over concern of job enablement, offered to the wrong person, but as the law doesn't require the firm to provide a reason for dismissal I can't demonstrate this and this is the catch 101, as despite my brief time with the firm not allowing me to claim unfair dismissal, my contract did have a grievance procedure that wouldn't have been followed, which would be a breach of contract.
In short:
My Question:
Many thanks
I was recently dismissed from a 6 month fixed-term contract after 2-3 months. The original agreement with the employer was that they wished to trial cross-site working and if after 6 months it didn't work out, they wouldn't renew, instead they dismissed much sooner with no prior feedback/review at all and had yet to even provide a full job specification, they did honour the one month notice period but the whole process has felt incredibly unfair, shocking and disrespectful, I gave the company serious tangible benefits along with my best efforts and goodwill, meeting all goals and they just said 'bye' despite promising to see the contract through six months.
It's my understanding that this dismissal likely came following a complaint over genuine and constructive feedback, issued over concern of job enablement, offered to the wrong person, but as the law doesn't require the firm to provide a reason for dismissal I can't demonstrate this and this is the catch 101, as despite my brief time with the firm not allowing me to claim unfair dismissal, my contract did have a grievance procedure that wouldn't have been followed, which would be a breach of contract.
In short:
- The company provided verbally an official line of "it's just not working out for us" followed by hints that the reason was that of a grievance.
- They never provided a job specification defining, roles, responsibilities or scope.
- They never provided any feedback on performance or followed any grievance procedure (or raised a grievance with me) allowing for early mitigation.
- They didn't provide any written reason for dismissal and so far won't provide a copy of the grievance procedure from their on-line employee handbook (which I no longer have access to).
My Question:
- This is clearly a breach of contract, their reason from dismissal must have ultimately emerged from a grievance and contractually they should have followed this procedure, but can I take any steps to prove this?
Many thanks