Permanent to Fixed Term Contract & Probationary Period
Hi There,
I have been at my current job for 11 months now and my manager has just come and spoken to me about arranging a meeting as my 12 months is almost up on my contract. The only issue is that my contract does not state that it is fixed term nor does it have an end date.
I think this was a mistake by the previous HR lady but the fact is that the contract doesn't state that it's fixed term and management did sign it as is.
Are they now able to change it to a fixed term for another 12 months? or do they have to just continue with it as perm?
Another question is just regarding probation periods. Mine was due/ up in October of last year. AT the time I was covering about 3 different roles and had not had any negative feedback regarding my work, only positive. I had emailed management several times about the probation meeting but never received an acknowledgement or response to my emails. HR at the time also tried to set up meetings but these were ignored / cancelled by the manager.
(HR do not sit in on any of the contract / probation periods here, they are just done by the manager as the HR role is HR / Accounts and management only really get HR to do the accounts part and the occasional recruitment and contract)
Nothing was said about my probation after that and I only received positive comments on my work. Then in December after having a day off ill I was advised at 9am the next morning that I was having my probation meeting at 11am that day. I wasn't given any performance paperwork to fill out (as one usually does in the reviews) and in the meeting was told my probation was being extended 3 months from October until January as I didn't communicate well enough that I was going to be away (I called the reception line at work and advised a manager but apparently I had to advise 2 managers and hadn't been told this).
Were they able to extend my probation 2 months after the fact like that with no actual comment on my work? They gave me the extension letter but never had me sign it.
January came and went and honestly I just gave up on following up on the probation as I pretty much knew it would be ignored again because I was excelling at my work and my manager didn't have any reason to pull me up on anything like back in October.
Sorry for all the text and thank you for your time.