handing in your notice...

[Maggoty]

Just a quick question.

If you are required to give 2 weeks notice - is that the MINIMUM amount of time only. Ie could you in fact give one month's notice if you wanted to but the employer couldn't insist you need to leave within two weeks?

The employee in question has been with the firm 3 years and needs to hand her notice in, wants to give 1 month so that she can tie up all loose ends but doesn't want the bosses to out her 2 weeks early as she needs the full wage packet.

Cheers

Ali

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[eash]

I think so. When I left to go travelling I was so excited about it that I gave my current employer 3 months notice and I only needed to give them one.
Does that help?

[Maggoty]

sort of - but was your employer just being nice. Could they have outted you earlier leagally??

xx

[eash]

Hmmm, not sure about the legalities of it all, I think my boss was just being nice! Sorry I couldn't help...

[Panic Button]

How could they? They would have to have good reason to terminate employment.

[JUNKMAN]

I think legally that the bosses could insist that your friend leaves sooner rather than later - but most companies would appreciate staff willing to give longer notice to help with things like training a replacement perhaps.
Is she entitled to any arrears of holiday payments ?

[craft1948]

If you're going to work for a competitor they can march you out of the door straight away.....but pay you the minimum notice salary.

[dothawkes31]

The employee will have clear information in their staff handbok on the accepted notice periods and there will be one for the employer and one for the emplyee. The employer cannot make someone leave their job before their notice period ends, but they can refuse to accept the longer notice period and insist on the minimum. Most companies wuld make a decision on that based on their situation financially and from a recruitment point of view. Most decent businesses would appreciate a longer notice period you would assume as it is time consuming task to have to asvertise, screen and interview for any position.

[factor-fiction]

My guess is that the contract will say the employer needs to give a minimum of 4 weeks' notice in which case they can't force her to go in 2. But she needs to check her contract

[ll_billym]

I think this question has been answered correctly by factor30 so my unhelpful aside is to say that tying up any loose ends is her old employers problem and if two weeks isn't enough time then they should have given her a longer notice period, notice periods work both ways.

[237SJ]

In the "old days! you had to give notice according to how you were paid. If you were paid weekly, you gave a week`s notice. If you were paid monthly, you gave a month`s notice. Nowadays according to how specialised your profession is, you may give more but I would have thought if your employer states how much notice you should give, then you would work out that notice

[gilf]

"How could they? They would have to have good reason to terminate employment. "

So in that case I can tell my employer that I will be leaving on 02/04/2038 and he can never get rid of me until I retire if I keep my nose clean.

[bushbaby_de]

umn yes gilf, that's right - unless you do anything wrong or get made redundant. An employer can't just terminate a contract because they feel like it - its not like renting a house!