verbal and written notice

SarEl

benham3160 wrote: »

From my understaning, essentially a "notice" is only a customary and "polite" way of resigning. To my knowledge generally you are free to "up and leave" any job without any notice period at all, albeit generally getting peoples backs up.

I had the misfortune to work for a chain store some time ago, and I just "resigned on the spot" after an altercation with my manager. She threated me will all sorts of nonsense that was buried in my contact about notice periods and witholding pay, although she did not excute any of "those clauses."

Regards,
Andy

Your understanding would be wrong. Notice is part of the contract (which is a legal document) and minimum notice periods are enshrined in employment law. Both employees and employers are expeced to abide by the notice period as agreed by the contract or by the law, otherwise either party can sue for losses incurred as a result of the failure to give notice. Employers rarely sue - but that does not mean that they can't, won't or don't. The employer may not withhold pay no matter what the contract says becasue such a clause would be unlawful - but that doesn not mean there is nothing that they can do about it.

ammsas

Hi,

What we do is we send the employee a letter confirming that they have given their notice verbally to 'Mrs X' on 'Y date'.

We have a very high turnover (budget retailer) and employ many international students so this cuts down on our administration re AWOL procedures that would have to be followed if we only accepted written resignations, although we obviously prefer them.

You cannot stop their accrued holiday pay though

DVardysShadow

ammsas wrote: »

Hi,

What we do is we send the employee a letter confirming that they have given their notice verbally to 'Mrs X' on 'Y date'.

We have a very high turnover (budget retailer) and employ many international students so this cuts down on our administration re AWOL procedures that would have to be followed if we only accepted written resignations, although we obviously prefer them.

You cannot stop their accrued holiday pay though

I suppose you then have a provision in your processes that if the resignee then denies it, you take the notice as being withdrawn. Otherwise, you have a wonderful way of sacking people.