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Depending on the training, it may be possible for them to substitute another employee and therefore not such a loss for them.0
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If youvtell them, there will be no need to keep you on. They can quite possibly say Go home now, heres a weeks pay, have 5 weeks nice holiday unpaid. Say nothing till the Friday before you leave,make the most of it, we are only here for the weekend.
and we will never, ever return.0 -
General_Grant wrote: »Depending on the training, it may be possible for them to substitute another employee and therefore not such a loss for them.
I'm the only one "attending" the course. It's money wasted.0 -
If youvtell them, there will be no need to keep you on. They can quite possibly say Go home now, heres a weeks pay, have 5 weeks nice holiday unpaid. Say nothing till the Friday before you leave,
Cheers. That's what I feared. Thanks for answering.
I thought companies needed a solid reason for forcing someone to leave.0 -
If you tell them now it's highly likely that they will get you to leave after 1 week, or now with 1 weeks pay in lieu of notice. They won't want to waste time and effort training you even in-house. If they try to book external training between now and when you need to hand in your notice, just be certain that there is nothing in your contract to say that you have to repay training costs.
I def won't owe anything. Just trying to help the company stop wasting their money.
How can they get someone to leave within UK employment law?0 -
Cheers. That's what I feared. Thanks for answering.
I thought companies needed a solid reason for forcing someone to leave.
Not during the first two years. Providing the real reason does not amount to unlawful discrimination (race sex, religion etc) you can be dismissed for any reason or none just by paying your contractual notice.0 -
The long and short of it is that you can't claim ordinary unfair dismissal in a tribunal in the first two years of your employment, so as long as they pay you the required notice they can let you go for no reason.
At the end of the day, if you leaving with one week's notice is going to be a problem for them they should have put more into your contract.“I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.” - P.G. Wodehouse0 -
Undervalued wrote: »Not during the first two years. Providing the real reason does not amount to unlawful discrimination (race sex, religion etc) you can be dismissed for any reason or none just by paying your contractual notice.
Yeh that's the reason I was made redundant in my previous role. Only been there a year and got 4 weeks notice and was out of the door.0
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