Resignation notice

Ader1

I'm just wondering where do I stand with regards to how much notice I need to give my current employer should I find another position and I decide to hand in my notice. I've heard that if you are paid monthly then youn need to give a month's notice and like-wise, if you're paid weekly, then you need to give a week's notice. I'm acutally paid monthly but it is possible that I would need to move quicker than this. I am worried about losing pay. Can anybody throw some light on this for me? Thanks.

TBeckett100

Read your employment contract. We don't know what's in it.

General_Grant

Ader1 wrote: »

I'm just wondering where do I stand with regards to how much notice I need to give my current employer should I find another position and I decide to hand in my notice. I've heard that if you are paid monthly then youn need to give a month's notice and like-wise, if you're paid weekly, then you need to give a week's notice. I'm acutally paid monthly but it is possible that I would need to move quicker than this. I am worried about losing pay. Can anybody throw some light on this for me? Thanks.

The suggestion that:
monthly pay = 1 month notice
weekly paid = one week notice
is myth.

Look at what your written particulars of employment say. If you have worked for your employer for at least two months then they should have given documentation to you. (It doesn't have to be something that is signed by either party but does have to be in writing.)

If you haven't been given anything, then the amount of notice you would have to give is one week, no matter how infrequently you are paid or how long you have been employed (as long as it is over a month's service).

Ader1

I've been there less than a month and I haven't been given anything yet. Hopefully, I will enjoy my new employment. I haven't found it too bad as yet. But there has been a very high turnover of staff in recent months.

prowla

How can you have started work without a contract of employment?
The notice required can vary by employer, and by role within companies.

Takeaway_Addict

prowla wrote: »

How can you have started work without a contract of employment?
The notice required can vary by employer, and by role within companies.

If there are no written particulars then the OP goes off statutory which for under 1 months work is no notice, after one month its one weeks notice.

LittleVoice

prowla wrote: »

How can you have started work without a contract of employment?
The notice required can vary by employer, and by role within companies.

The OP has a contract of employment. For example, they've started to carry out duties and the employer is expected to pay. Presumably there is something in writing already if only an offer letter stating the salary. Full particulars as required by law are to be provided within two months of the start date.


True that notice requirements can vary from employer to employer but without having received the written particulars stating otherwise, as Takeaway_Addict says, employees need give just one week's notice or none if employed for less than a month at the time they give notice.

Ader1

I was offered employment a week last Monday when I was told that they would send me full particulars via mail and forms for me to fill in. But I did start at the beginning of this week. Maybe the Christmas rush has delayed the arrival of the package they were supposed to have sent me.

Millerpup

Your terms and conditions of employment coming through the post are your contract. You have made a choice to start with your new employer without even seeing and signing these so have accepted them by actually starting work. However, as you have been there only a week there is a good chance that you will be on some sort of probationary period. i personally shouldn't worry about how much notice you are required to give. Just go in and see your employer and state that the role is not what you expected it to be therefore you won't be staying. Sometimes the employer will let you stay until the end of the week some will let you go instantly.

LittleVoice

Millerpup wrote: »

Your terms and conditions of employment coming through the post are your contract. You have made a choice to start with your new employer without even seeing and signing these so have accepted them by actually starting work. However, as you have been there only a week there is a good chance that you will be on some sort of probationary period. i personally shouldn't worry about how much notice you are required to give. Just go in and see your employer and state that the role is not what you expected it to be therefore you won't be staying. Sometimes the employer will let you stay until the end of the week some will let you go instantly.

Whatever is coming through the post is not the OP's contract of employment. The contract of employment is much wider than that.


The OP, by starting work, has not accepted what may be written in the documents not yet received but the two parties to the contract of employment are bound by statute law - such as the amount of notice to be given by either and minimum paid holiday entitlement.


The documents which have been promised may not be something which is signed by either party. The law does not require written particulars of employment to be signed.


If the OP receives the document(s) and continues to work for the employer without objecting to any part, they will be bound by the terms. Until they are received, they cannot be bound by them.


Advising the OP to go in to work and effectively resign is not sensible. They have not written here that they are unhappy so why would you say they should resign?

Probationary periods don't mean much other than that some benefits (like sick pay or paid leave) may improve when such employer designated periods have been completed.

Your comments about what "sometimes" an employer will allow don't mean much. Without written particulars neither party need give any lengyh notice to the other. Here the employer could not make someone stay longer.

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Millerpup wrote: »

Just go in and see your employer and state that the role is not what you expected it to be therefore you won't be staying. Sometimes the employer will let you stay until the end of the week
some will let you go instantly.

Yeah this happened to me, the instant so be prepared!
nice fella said I could go back in better times and offered to pay me to end of day, no hard feelings compared to some of the cat fights I have been in and come to regret when you can't turn back time

I was nearly at the end of the database though and it was quiet

My advice is treat it as your mistake, offer to work notice and it'll be ok, without asking my pay and P45 arrived a week later so there are still them that do the right thing and this was in the Christmas build up, I think a lot will thank you rather then mess them about any further