My husband took on a part time job over Christmas on a 12 week contract. The 12 weeks expires mid February. I was quite surprised to see that the job had a 4 week notice period which kicked in after 4 weeks service.
Anway DH was told at the time of taking the job that if all worked out he was likely to be kept on and indeed the company have indicated that a permanent job is there if he wants it. He doesn't since he is now working (self employed) in another capacity and would like to devote all of his time to that. My question is whether he is supposed to give notice or whether he can just rely on the fact that he was employed under a 12 week contract. Obviously either way he needs to speak to his boss, I just want to know if anyone knows whether they can now insist that he is retained for an extra week due to him not having given any formal notice (they are very short staffed and DH has proved to be very reliable and willing to do the rubbish shifts and turn up in the bad weather).