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Cancelled work...
Hi there. I was booked in to work for several months as a freelance technician and due to schedule problems the company have cancelled me after two weeks. What can I do about this? Am I entitled to be paid? Appreciate any advice...
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- Sorry to hear about that [USER=28475]@Jimmy[/USER] - as [USER=3804]@threelancer[/USER] said, if you have a contract in place then you have some hope - even if it is just an email from them confirming that amount of work it could be possibly seen as a contract... Possibly!
Were you working direct or through an agency? Also, are they regular clients or were you seeing this as a one-off bit of work? That would alter how hard you would go after them IMO... -
- Jimmy that's really frustrating. I can only echo what the other two have said. It's dependent upon whether you signed and contract and if you did what that contract stated.
- The advice so far Jimmy is sound. You'd need to check your contract; look for non-payment clauses like the one referred to here and then consider taking legal/contractual advice. You may well be entitled to some form of payment/compensation, as this freelancer was.
Tell us how you get on. My best bet: the client will do all in its power to not give you a penny!:rolleyes: - And if you supply your own T&Cs, make sure they have a clause about cancellations written in ...
So sorry to hear about this.Freelance technical translator, French and German into English
