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Company changing my notice period.
Aussie80
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Hello.
I have been in my current job since June after being made redundant from my previous employment. Unfortunately, I have been struggling to settle there and it's making me extremely unhappy. Earlier this month I applied for another job on a whim as it sounded much more suited to me/my skills and I was offered it a few days ago!
The contract I signed in June clearly states that I only need to give a week of notice if I'm in my first six months of employment. I handed in my letter of resignation on Thursday. My manager accepted it and we agreed that my last day would be this coming Friday. He made a point of telling me how short-staffed I would be leaving them though.
24 hours later I was called into a meeting where my manager informed me that the policy had actually changed and I now need to give a month of notice. When I questioned this I was told that it came into effect when I was on annual leave at the end of September and it simply "slipped their minds" to tell me/get me to sign a new contract on my return. I am the only employee who has been working there less than six months so I have no idea how true this is as I have no-one to compare notes with! They gave me a new contract to read over the weekend. I've been told I need to bring it back (signed) tomorrow.
Because of the first conversation I had with my manager, I have arranged to start my new job on 5th November. I am now not sure if this will be possible or if they'd be willing to wait longer for me. They need someone to start ASAP.
Where do I stand with this? I obviously don't want my company to give me a negative reference if I insist on leaving in a week but I'm also not sure if what they're doing is right.
I have been in my current job since June after being made redundant from my previous employment. Unfortunately, I have been struggling to settle there and it's making me extremely unhappy. Earlier this month I applied for another job on a whim as it sounded much more suited to me/my skills and I was offered it a few days ago!
The contract I signed in June clearly states that I only need to give a week of notice if I'm in my first six months of employment. I handed in my letter of resignation on Thursday. My manager accepted it and we agreed that my last day would be this coming Friday. He made a point of telling me how short-staffed I would be leaving them though.
24 hours later I was called into a meeting where my manager informed me that the policy had actually changed and I now need to give a month of notice. When I questioned this I was told that it came into effect when I was on annual leave at the end of September and it simply "slipped their minds" to tell me/get me to sign a new contract on my return. I am the only employee who has been working there less than six months so I have no idea how true this is as I have no-one to compare notes with! They gave me a new contract to read over the weekend. I've been told I need to bring it back (signed) tomorrow.
Because of the first conversation I had with my manager, I have arranged to start my new job on 5th November. I am now not sure if this will be possible or if they'd be willing to wait longer for me. They need someone to start ASAP.
Where do I stand with this? I obviously don't want my company to give me a negative reference if I insist on leaving in a week but I'm also not sure if what they're doing is right.
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I would guess it would be considered unfair to hold you to a clause which "changed" so recently without you being notified!Retired member - fed up with the general tone of the place.0
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You have resigned before the new contract was issued to you so I say the old contract stands for the notice period0
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Where do I stand with this? I obviously don't want my company to give me a negative reference if I insist on leaving in a week but I'm also not sure if what they're doing is right.
Well, they will struggle to hold you to the new terms!
However that doesn't stop them giving a "negative" reference. They can say anything they like as long as it is true and not deliberately misleading. Equally they are under no obligation to provide a reference at all (unless there is a term in your existing contract requiring them to do so).0 -
'The policy has now changed'
'Well, be sure to tell my replacement'
'We are going to be short staffed'
'Well, perhaps you need people to give you a longer notice period'
'We changed the notice period whilst you were away'
'If it was that important to you, I'm sure you would have made sure I got a copy and was told about it at the time - surely my copy was sat in someone's tray for a month?'
'We need you to bring the signed contract in'
'It slipped my mind'
'If you don't bring the contract in we will...erm...'
'Sack me? I'm sorry but I can only act with the information I have at the time. If you wanted a month's notice I'd have given them a different start date. I am not a mind-reader. All this is causing me much stress and I am feeling quite ill about it all. I can't see what else i can do. I might have to go now and see a doctor as I am feeling very stressed.'If you haven't got it - please don't flaunt it. TIA.0 -
As SN suggests.
Except there is no need for signing the contract document to have slipped your mind. You simply don't agree to the change of terms. And the change wasn't even known of by your manager until after agreeing your departure date.
They are trying it on.0 -
Have they already given a reference to your new employers?
Thinking ahead in case they they do now or later give references which say 'did not keep notice term' or whatever it would be worth keeping both contracts - your original and this new one, and if you can get them to give you in writing the fact they changed the notice period on you that would be worth keeping on file too.But a banker, engaged at enormous expense,Had the whole of their cash in his care.
Lewis Carroll0 -
LittleVoice wrote: »As SN suggests.
Except there is no need for signing the contract document to have slipped your mind. You simply don't agree to the change of terms. And the change wasn't even known of by your manager until after agreeing your departure date.
They are trying it on.
I was being sarcastic. It's my way.
If you haven't got it - please don't flaunt it. TIA.0 -
Just don't agree to the new term.0
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And good luck in your new job.............make the most of it, we are only here for the weekend.
and we will never, ever return.0 -
Photocopy both contracts (new and old). It may be helpful for you if they start spouting off about recompense.0
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