my ful;l time contract ended and the company gave it to some one else part time

[tweenyb]

hiya

I am so so angry with my old employer at the mo....

I was a contracter full time for a recruitment co working onsite for one of their clients.... the role looked to be going permanent if we could get enough temps in the co...

then the co changed their training stratagie which meant less temps so at the end of my last contract the employer decided to make the contract part time.

This for me was not an issue as i thought i could do a second job around it, however, and this is really the frustrating bit, my old manager said i am offering it to the lady ho temped with you when you were really busy as she wants part time and you need to get on with your life, rather than hanging on waiting for this job to go full time.again or go permanent.

IS THIS LEGAL?

Do I have any rights at all?

Many thanks x

[cassa333]

Have you said to him.. Actually I want the pt job it suits me just fine? And if so what did he say?

I could be wrong but if you are on a contract then I suppose they can just not renew it so in theory yes they can.

[Twenty20]

Unless you are an employee or could show yourself to be an employee then you have no rights.

[buildersmate]

. .............which he clearly wasn't, 20, as he was employed through an agency.
Perfectly legal, probably done to save money on the agency fee. Moral of the story is to offer yourself up front for the job, not hang-back.
Even then you might not have got it because you can be sure the end employer would have had to pay your agency a whack for taking you on as an emploee - agencies protect themselves legally against this happening.