average notice period

Derwent

Undervalued wrote: »

It doesn't mean that at all. It may be that was what was agreed in your particular case but it is not automatic.

An employer has to give a minimum of one week's notice if you have been employed for a month or more but less than two years. After that it is one week for each full year of employment up to a maximum of twelve. A contract can agree more but it cannot be less.

In the absence of a contractual requirement an employee only ever has to give one week's notice regardless of how long he has been employed.

There is no legal requirement for contractual notice periods to be equal.

Perhaps, but I have never seen an employment contract for a white collar job that doesn't specify the contractual length of notice to be given by each side. Usually they are at least a reciprocal length and quite often the employer has to give more notice than the employee.