Reply to employment contract question for lawyer

Forum Index » Off-Topic

Reply to "employment contract question for lawyer"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]I hired in November for a job starting next week. It more or less worked out with a job I had that was ending the beginning of Dec. so I picked up days to fill in here and there with other families between the jobs. The family hired me on Nov.1 via phone and then sent me an email saying they were hiring me to start in Jan for xx days and a contract would follow and they requested that I respond to the email agreeing that they had hired me for Jan and those days. I had a really good feeling about the job and the family. I worked a couple of days for them and things were going well (I thought.) But then out of nowhere they changed their mind two days ago. The contract states they would give me 60 days severance or notice if/when they no longer needed my services, that both parties are mutually reliant on the contract and will exhaust all measures before ending it during the trial period. However although we signed the contract in Dec. they said it would start Jan 17.

So my question is does the contract really start on Jan 17 or did it start on Nov 1 when they essentially retained my services by requesting me to respond to their hiring email saying I agree to work for them starting in Jan? FWIW they didn't give me any reason, just that they changed their mind. I'm very frustrated because I stopped looking for a job 10 wks ago based on our agreement and I feel like they led me on needlessly. They did offer $250 for my inconvenience but I think they owe me 60 days per the contract based on the circumstances. It's not like they hired me last week and changed their mind.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics