Notice Period?

markwilliams82

Well I'm looking to leave my job and give my notice in for a new job.
However I'm not sure of my notice period without asking the management, I am a permanent member of staff but get paid weekly.
My contract doesn't say anything about what notice an employee should give, but it does say that the employer should give one weeks notice to the employee if they have work between 2 months and 1 year, which is my case.

I do have a holiday next week as well.

So does anyone on here have an idea of what kind of notice I need to give and the earliest day I could start my new job?

welshman10

If it does not state a notice period in your contract then I'd just leave on the spot.

There is probably a one-week statutory requirement or something though.

brazilianwax

markwilliams82 wrote: »

Well I'm looking to leave my job and give my notice in for a new job.
However I'm not sure of my notice period without asking the management, I am a permanent member of staff but get paid weekly.
My contract doesn't say anything about what notice an employee should give, but it does say that the employer should give one weeks notice to the employee if they have work between 2 months and 1 year, which is my case.

I do have a holiday next week as well.

So does anyone on here have an idea of what kind of notice I need to give and the earliest day I could start my new job?

If you're paid weekly, and they would need to give you one week's notice, then you should be giving one week's notice.

jobbingmusician

You should also work out how much holiday you are owed (or, more depressingly, how much too much holiday you have taken). They should pay you for any untaken holiday, or they may force you to take it in your notice period (which could mean that you leave the same day and even that they STILL owe you some holiday pay even if you walk out immediately).

If you owe them holiday money there is always the hope that they won't notice (smaller employers are not always on the ball enough to work this one out!)

Jarvisma

Brazilian wax is correct - in the absense of specific notice periods in the contract you would use your pay frequency as guidance. i.e. if you get paid monthly, 1 month notice, if you get paid weekly, 1 week notice.

You have said you have a holiday booked, so this could be included in any notice period worked (so if you had the whole week off next week, in essense your last working day would be the last day before you start the holiday) or you can offer to work your notice and be paid for the holiday due to you on leaving instead.

It is important to think about whether you have already taken any holiday this year and therefore if you do take next week as holiday you may actually exceed the holiday you have accrued so far this year and indeed have the difference deducted from your final pay.

LittleVoice

Without a notice period specified in the written terms, then, after one month's employment, an employee need give only one week's notice to terminate employment.

Whereas notice required from an employer increases with the length of employment, there is no increase in the statutory (default in the absence of contractual longer notice) notice required to be given by the employee.