Handing in notice - calculating termination date

giggsy07

Hi all,

I am planning to hand in my notice at work which requires 8 weeks. Does this mean my 8 week notice would complete my employment on Monday 8th October or the Friday preceeding, i.e. Friday 5th October?

I have actually requested an early termination date of Friday 21st September anyway but I just wanted to ensure that I had the dates on the formal letter correct.

Many thanks in advance.
Giggsy07

KiKi

giggsy07 wrote: »

Hi all,

I am planning to hand in my notice at work which requires 8 weeks. Does this mean my 8 week notice would complete my employment on Monday 8th October or the Friday preceeding, i.e. Friday 5th October?

I have actually requested an early termination date of Friday 21st September anyway but I just wanted to ensure that I had the dates on the formal letter correct.

Many thanks in advance.
Giggsy07

8 weeks from the point of handing it in. So if you hand in at 0900 Monday morning, then it's 0900 on the Monday in 8 weeks' time. In reality, therefore, that's the Friday before, and so I would put that on the letter.

If you leave your resignation until the afternoon of Monday, then you need to say Monday in 8 weeks.

HTH
KiKi

anamenottaken

My understanding is that notice runs from the beginning of the day after it is delivered, whatever time of day it is handed in.

So hand in your notice at any time on Monday and the notice would technically run from the Tuesday and therefore end on a Monday.

Here's a link - http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Employment/RedundancyAndLeavingYourJob/Resigningorretiring/DG_175835

Giving notice


You or your employer can give notice on any day. Normally the notice period will run from the start of the following day. For example, if you give notice on a Monday, your notice period will start on the Tuesday and will finish at the end of Monday.
You should read your contract of employment. If it lays out a different process for when notice can be given or when your notice period will run, you and your employer must follow the agreement in your contract.

That extract is, of course, assuming a one week notice period.

caeler

Yup a resignation handed in at 5pm on Monday (and accepted) would be just the same as giving it in at 9am.

McKneff

If you want to leave on the 5th though, put that down, I cant see them being bothered about you leaving on the Friday instead of the monday.

hcb42

I think realistically if you put your notice in tomorrow however, with the finishing date in eight weeks time on the friday most would see that as eight weeks notice - eight more weeks of work..