service contract signed by ex-employee

[chevy-stu]

A company I'm involved with have contracts for a number of service providers such as: website hosting, waste disposal, advertising that were organised by then current manager and assistant operations managers.
They have both left within the last few months and after some investigation by myself and the owner there are a number of issues due to their reckless signing of 12 or 24 contracts for services not really suitable for the company...

Anyone have any idea where one would stand regarding cancelling service contracts signed by ex-employees ?

[chevy-stu]

That's unfortunately what I assumed... They just messed up and landed the company with loads of cash commitment for unrequired services, and walked away... Just seems unfair.

[chevy-stu]

davepoth said:

Unless you can prove malfeasance (i.e. they benefited from signing those contracts to the detriment of the company) you are out of luck.

Unfortunately not the case. Just rubbish managers being lazy and taking first easy options rather than doing some homework or shopping around...
Good example was signing up a new waste company, without checking existing contracter still had 8 months to run before we could cancel.