Notice period if leaving in the first month?

RedfordML

Hoping to leave a toxic job quickly. Today will be day 5. Reading my contract it’s a 4 week notice period, does that apply if you leave within the first month or two?

MovingForwards

If your contact says 4 weeks notice then that is what it is.

getmore4less

If that is what is in your contract that is your notice.

if you want to leave sooner you can negotiate.

Often best to resign and let them make the first move about shorter notice as that way they need to pay the notice period, but thye may make it conditional on you agreeing to no pay.

if both sides think/know it is not going to work then they may offer a shorter notice without pay.

Undervalued

getmore4less wrote: »

If that is what is in your contract that is your notice.

if you want to leave sooner you can negotiate.

Often best to resign and let them make the first move about shorter notice as that way they need to pay the notice period, but thye may make it conditional on you agreeing to no pay.

if both sides think/know it is not going to work then they may offer a shorter notice without pay.

That assumes the notice period is the same both ways. It may be but it doesn't have to be. If no notice period is specified for the employer giving notice, then the legal default would apply which is zero in the first month!

If that is the case the OP needs to beware that once he gives his month's notice the employer could then tell him to go at any point.

Either way he is entitled to be paid for accrued holiday, roughly half a day's pay for every week worked.

getmore4less

If that is the case the OP needs to beware that once he gives his month's notice the employer could then tell him to go at any point.

not a problem for the OP

Hoping to leave a toxic job quickly.