Messed up giving my notice

tigershoes99

I may have messed up giving in my notice and was hoping you guys could perhaps advise if I am over thinking this.

Pretty much living paycheck to paycheck in my current circumstances so these 2 weeks pay really matter to me...

I was planning on handing in my notice on 05/12/14, as my new role starts 05/01/15.
I have been unhappy in my role for several years now, my line leader noticed and tried to help but nothing has worked. Once again she took me for an informal chat in November to see if she could help me, but I felt bad that she was trying so hard....so I admitted to her that she really shouldn't go to too much trouble over it, as I was planning on handing my notice in, in the near future.
She said she was happy that I was moving into something I enjoyed, but stressed that she really needed this notice in writing so that they could start the process of recruiting.

So I gave in my notice letter, stating clearly on it that I was still happy to work on till 02/01/15, and provide all the holiday cover during xmas/new year shutdown, as I had previously agreed to.
But from the moment they took the notice, they calculated 4 weeks exactly, and gave me a final date before Christmas, leaving me with a fortnight between jobs....and therefore no pay for those 2 weeks.

When I queried this, they claimed that due to "business reasons" they could not have me working the holidaytime cover alone for those two weeks, as I would not be back in on 05/01/15 to do a handover.

I wonder now, if I had held off on physically giving in my written notice until 05/12/14, would they have needed to pay me over the holiday period, to ensure my 4 weeks notice period? Or would they just have made my notice period shorter?

Sorry if the above is awfully confusing, struggling to get my head around it and freaking out over how to make up these 2 weeks wages now.

Thanks

jobbingmusician

Well, if you were planning on taking holiday over Christmas, it would have come out of your holiday allowance, so you haven't actually lost that pay. They will still have to pay you for any accrued holiday in the current holiday year, which might help your financial situation.

tigershoes99

I had previously agreed to work all the holiday time to cover everyone else, so i had used up my holiday days, which sucks now as no pay for them.

jobbingmusician

Would your new employer agree to you starting a day or two later, so that you can indeed provide the handover which your current employer seems to want?

tigershoes99

I think I'm too late now to go about changing it all as this was all done in November. But thanks for yor help!

supersaver1000

This might be helpful. .hrzone.com/topic/managing-people/ask-expert-more-notice-we-wanted

suicidebob

Sounds weird that you just did not give your notice 4 weeks before your final working day.

What dates did you state on your notice letter, and when did you hand it in?

tigershoes99

I noted that I wanted my last date to be 02/01 and I handed it in on 24/11

tigershoes99

I only gave it in early because i was asked to, I didn't realise it would be the start of my "notice period", despite me stating my requested final working date on it.

prowla

Erm, you can give as much notice as you like, but a minimum of 4 weeks...

General_Grant

tigershoes99 wrote: »

I noted that I wanted my last date to be 02/01 and I handed it in on 24/11

If you really did say that you were resigning and that your last day would be 2 January then 2 January is the date for the termination of your employment.

However the question of whether they can get you to leave earlier depends on how much notice they have to give you and how long you have worked there.

What do your written particulars of employment say about notice required from the employer to terminate your employment? Does it say 4 weeks, one month, or something else?

When did they give you the revised termination date?

How long had you been employed by them by that date?