Can you resign whilst on sick notice...if you get a new job?

Googlewhacker

Hezzawithkids wrote: »

Ever had one of those days when you wish you hadn't started something............?

I am not going to go into all the details on here, my original reply was only to make the point that the employer is also affected by the employees decision about sick leave, using my own experience as an illustration.

FYI - not that I owe you any explanations - I was only paying SSP, which was in the contract. I continued paying because (a) it was in the contract that they got SSP and (b) they could have walked back through the door any day, which became my default position since they refused to answer any communications giving me any indication when or if they were ever coming back.

If the position was reversed I would have kept to my contractual obligations and kept in touch with my employer, you never know they may have been able to help if I was struggling, since they did actually value my contributions to the company that I had already made and had already invested a lot in my training and were only just beginning to see some payback. But that's just me.

I resent your explicit accusation of mis-management. I don't actually own the business any more (all this happened a few years ago) because I sold it as a going concern earlier this year and made a tidy profit in the process. To achieve that in this economic climate took some doing and I don't believe I would have if the new owner, or his bank, believed I was "mis-managing".

Please check your facts before you go jumping to conclusions about people's capabilities.

You will soon learn that Uncertain is very pro employee and anti employer.

jackyann

I don't know about Uncertain. I have no axe to grind, but Hezza's advice about who can sign a sick note is wrong, and that means other advice should be checked.

Googlewhacker

jackyann wrote: »

I don't know about Uncertain. I have no axe to grind, but Hezza's advice about who can sign a sick note is wrong, and that means other advice should be checked.

All advice on a forum should not be taken as gospel. Uncertains advice is generally very good.

Hezzawithkids

Googlewhacker wrote: »

You will soon learn that Uncertain is very pro employee and anti employer.

Yeah I got that message!! The point of my original post is that there is always an impact on the employer when this sort of thing goes on, especially when it is a small business like the one I had. Big organisations usually have the resources to plug the gaps, but I was left high and dry by my ex-employees actions with very few options open to me.

Just saying.

Uncertain

Hezzawithkids wrote: »

Yeah I got that message!!

Funny how you ignored Googlewhacker's other post......

Uncertains advice is generally very good.

Hezzawithkids

Uncertain wrote: »

Funny how you ignored Googlewhacker's other post......

How is debating a point with you ad nauseum ignoring you? I think you'll find that on another thread I actually agree with your advice.

Don't be so touchy, it doesn't suit you.

And get over yourself already.

janealb

Mudd14 wrote: »

He is only sick at that employer so may be no reflection to finding another job....

As long as he gives thre correct notice as detailed in his contract then it makes no different to whether he works his notice or is off sick.

Exaclty. Even if signed off as sick he is still employed there. The company has to accept his notice whether he's at work or signed off sick.

Acc72

Hezzawithkids wrote: »

Considering they held a senior position in the company it was at best unprofessional and at worst downright rude - especially as I had been paying them all along.

If I understand correctly the employee was paid SSP ?

This is the "Statutory" minimum to be paid, and you would have claimed this back from HMRC, so effectively you were not paying this employee all along.

Hezzawithkids

Acc72 wrote: »

If I understand correctly the employee was paid SSP ?

This is the "Statutory" minimum to be paid, and you would have claimed this back from HMRC, so effectively you were not paying this employee all along.

The employee was getting money from me while off sick and I was contractually obliged to pay them. The original point I was making was that they didn't fulfil their side of the contract by keeping in touch with me while they were off for 10 weeks. Jeez....