A dilemma (case study)
Initially all staff contracts were for a fixed term of six months as this was roughly the period for which funding was guaranteed.
Additional funding was subsequently secured and contracts were renewed for a further six months. The programme manager then discovered that under the local labour laws, any further extension would automatically make the contracts indefinite. Some other organisations got around this by allowing each fixed-term contract to expire and then re-employing the same person on a new contract after a gap of several days. It was unclear whether this was indeed legal, and the programme manager was certainly concerned about the impact on staff morale and commitment if he did the same thing.
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