Taxi Driver Online

This is short but sweet. Lots of legalese, but essentially it reads like a circuit required 13 weeks notice to end a rental/settle agreement, or whatever it's called elsewhere. The driver obviously didn't give the notice, and the office took legal action, and won

Me, I'd have counter-sued that I'd been wrongly classified as self-employed

But obviously there's been a written contract in existence, rather than the verbal agreements that are maybe the rule elsewhere. The latter obviously makes it more difficult to sue. And I doubt if notice periods of this length are common in the trade, if there's any real notice required at all, particularly in the case of more informal, verbal agreements. And even more unusual that a rental/settle agreement ends up in court for breach of contract.

Reminds me of a dispute I had with an office I worked for back in the 1990s, but let's not go there


TAXI Firm Win Court Case Over Honouring Contractual Notice Period

https://www.inverclydenow.com/taxi-firm ... ce-period/

A LOCAL taxi company has been successful in legal action brought against an owner/operator.

ABC Taxis went to court after Gary Wallace of Cawdor Place, Greenock, did not honour a 13-week contractual notice period required under an operators contract for rental of equipment and provision of services.

A sheriff at Greenock Sheriff Court found in favour of ABC Taxis and ordered that the company be paid £1,690, plus interest, and expenses.

I am amazed that drivers would sign to accept such a long notice period most contracts don't require anything near that.

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Maybe they offered a free knowledge course and/or paid his licensing fees.

But the fella shouldn't have signed, or he should have argued it was an unfair condition and they abused their position to make him sign.

All that said, I very much doubt the firm will get its money.

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