Larry MinerFounder and Sr. Project Management of Decision Memory Systems| Decision Memory SystemsBath, Oh, United States
I would like to get your views, good bad or indifferent, on the signed contract between the contract PM and the staffing firm for a specific job. Do you read them? Are they satisfactory? What do you like or dislike about them? Do you refer to them later in the project? And what would you suggest to the staffing firm to do differently? Thank you Saving Changes...
Do I read them - absolutely. Ignorance is usually not bliss in contract law...
Are they satisfactory - usually from the perspective of the staffing firm and they are acceptable from my perspective if I sign them...
What do I like or dislike about them? It's a contract so I'm not doing cartwheels with the wording, but I do dislike the unnecessary length. Case in point - my current contract was over 50 pages and the staffing firm insisted I initial each page and send it back to them. I would have liked to have sent them a bill for my scanning time...
Do I refer to them later in the project? Yes, if there's a specific T or C which I need to check. For example, if I'm considering early termination, I'd like to know the specific procedures.
What could staffing firms do different? Lean the overall process out and preferably move to an e-form approach to cut down on the waste...
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Larry MinerFounder and Sr. Project Management of Decision Memory Systems| Decision Memory SystemsBath, Oh, United States
I've been reviewing contracts between the IT PM contractor and the staffing firm over the last say 9 months. I even went so far as to have a law firm review one of them, from one of the largest in the US. To paraphrase the response they said the contractor has little or no recourse and is carrying most or all the risk in the arrangement. I know this is a complex subject but I want to begin a discussion on equalizing the risk between the client, the staffing firms and the contractor. As it is today the PM contractor carries the largest risk and at the same time is the one party that can least afford it. And this is not an indictment of staffing firms or clients but as the gig economy grows so may well the inequality. Saving Changes...
