Reply to post: Re: Contract clauses

'What's the point of me being in my office, just because they want to see me in the office?'

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Re: Contract clauses

"You are contracted for X hours, you get paid for X hours, you put in X hours. If your employer expects more, and tries to sanction you for not delivering it, then take it to a tribunal."

It depends on the position. If you are paid for putting in hours, that's what you have to do. If you are instead expected to accomplish certain things by a certain date, that can be viewed differently. Using hours as a bracket can be useful. If you are being paid to accomplish a task and it will take more than 40hours/week on average, you could ask for more money or get them to add more resources. If you are getting everything done for the week by Wednesday lunch, your employer may want to give you more work. For engineering, I don't think I would make a piecework arrangement unless I could see it was all in my favor.

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