Notice Period

RoxRoxBling

I verbally told my employer that I'd like to leave on the 14th March and handed in my 4 weeks written notice on the 15th.
I'm being told my last day will be the 13th April, but should it on be the 12th?

DVardysShadow

Apparently notice only takes effect the day after you hand it in. So the clock started on 16th March.

RoxRoxBling

DVardysShadow wrote: »

Apparently notice only takes effect the day after you hand it in. So the clock started on 16th March.

Does that still mean that my notice period will finish at the end of working day 12th April?

LittleVoice

RoxRoxBling wrote: »

I verbally told my employer that I'd like to leave on the 14th March and handed in my 4 weeks written notice on the 15th.
I'm being told my last day will be the 13th April, but should it on be the 12th?

Your terms of employment are likely to specify giving notice in writing, so telling your employer other than in writing would not start the clock ticking. (This helps where an employee is upset and says they are leaving and then thinks better of it.)

The letter would do that and the period of notice would be from the next day, 16 March. (This means that someone giving one week's notice at the end of their shift on a Friday, still has to work a full week the following week.)

So your four full weeks do indeed end on 12 April.

Do you think your employer is working on the assumption that you resigned on 14 March and were required to give one month's notice, expiring 13 April?

I think it more likely that they are taking a "week" to be a week beginning on, say, a Monday, and therefore Friday 16 March isn't included. Check your written particulars of employment to see whether there is some wording to this effect. (I've worked where giving a month's notice meant that the final month of employment began on the 1st of the month following the day of handing in the notice. So someone resigning on 1 July, needed to work through to 31 August!)

RoxRoxBling

I haven't been given a contract or signed a contract by my employer. My "letter of confirmation of job" from the company said I need to confirm that I have accepted the job in writing. I did not do this.

In regards to me giving them notice to leave, is it still the standard 4 weeks that the company demands or can I refer to the legal minimum (which would be one week)?

LittleVoice

RoxRoxBling wrote: »

I haven't been given a contract or signed a contract by my employer. My "letter of confirmation of job" from the company said I need to confirm that I have accepted the job in writing. I did not do this.

In regards to me giving them notice to leave, is it still the standard 4 weeks that the company demands or can I refer to the legal minimum (which would be one week)?

Not having signed the letter (or any other "contract") doesn't make a difference. You clearly accepted the offer by turning up and working.

If they made you aware of the requirement for four weeks' notice then that is what you are contractually required to do. The contractual term (four weeks) overrides the minimum statutory notice of one week.

marybelle01

RoxRoxBling wrote: »

I haven't been given a contract or signed a contract by my employer. My "letter of confirmation of job" from the company said I need to confirm that I have accepted the job in writing. I did not do this.

In regards to me giving them notice to leave, is it still the standard 4 weeks that the company demands or can I refer to the legal minimum (which would be one week)?

I think that insetad of looking for excuses not to work your notice - I was particularly impressed by the query on another board about what kind of car repair would take several weeks and therefore prevent you from going to work - and taking unauthorised days off (I presume that was on account of the "car repair"?) which leave you having to explain yourself to your managers, you need to bite the bullet. Either suck it up and work out your notice or take the slight risk of being sued (and of course the very definite circumstance that you won't get any more pay for the next few weeks) and decide to tell them that you aren't coming back.