Notice period increase....

footballhater

I have been offered and (verbally accepted) a new job.
Have to meet with their HR dept this week to formalize/sign contract.
I have been with my current employer 10 years, and my contract states
1 month notice period.
This has never been amended (to my knowledge ) but I am now reading that after 2 yrs continuous employ, you have to give 1 week's additional notice for every year worked.
I am really worried about this as I told my new employer I could start in a month. My position would not need 3 months to fill, not senior or managerial.
Can this 3 months be enforced when my contract states 1 month?

Any advice great fully received.

anamenottaken

footballhater wrote: »

I have been offered and (verbally accepted) a new job.
Have to meet with their HR dept this week to formalize/sign contract.
I have been with my current employer 10 years, and my contract states
1 month notice period.
This has never been amended (to my knowledge ) but I am now reading that after 2 yrs continuous employ, you have to give 1 week's additional notice for every year worked.
I am really worried about this as I told my new employer I could start in a month. My position would not need 3 months to fill, not senior or managerial.
Can this 3 months be enforced when my contract states 1 month?

Any advice great fully received.

Don't worry. That increasing notice period is only for what the employer has to give to an employee. The notice you as an employee has to give is whatever is written in your contract (in your case it appears to be one month).

Some employers do include in written contracts that notice increases in parallel with that which they have to give (and sometimes they actually require more notice than they have to give) but as long as your written particulars stipulate one month, you are fine.

[Deleted User]

I started a job in 2007 which I left in 2012 that had service awards (only badges to wear but still!) and I remember leaving on a month's notice. In fact I recall being allowed to negotiate leaving a day early. Team of three and it was this time of year before the summer hols. I too think you'll be alright.