Notice period

rachelcward

My original Contract of Employment 8 years ago does not include any information re period of notice required when leaving. I have therefore assumed this to be one month.
However, my Employer is stating two months and an electronic version of my Contract was emailed to me stating two months. I have not signed any change to my original Contract, are they able to enforce this?

Blatchford

rachelcward wrote: »

My original Contract of Employment 8 years ago does not include any information re period of notice required when leaving. I have therefore assumed this to be one month.
However, my Employer is stating two months and an electronic version of my Contract was emailed to me stating two months. I have not signed any change to my original Contract, are they able to enforce this?

The answer may not be can they, but will they?

You don't have to sign a contract to agree to it - carrying on working without objecting will be quite sufficient. To be honest it's possibly going to be a case of he said/ she said - they will claim you knew or had been given it, you will say not. If you leave earlier, technically they might sue you for losses. It seldom happens - but it can, so you have been warned. More likely might be, are you expecting a reference.... In cases of minor dispute like this, where possible, negotiate. Can you offer something that solves their worries about you leaving earlier that will make them happy?

General_Grant

rachelcward wrote: »

My original Contract of Employment 8 years ago does not include any information re period of notice required when leaving. I have therefore assumed this to be one month.
However, my Employer is stating two months and an electronic version of my Contract was emailed to me stating two months. I have not signed any change to my original Contract, are they able to enforce this?

Why assume one month. If they really had not provided anything in writing about this, the statutory notice you would have to give is one week.

Is the "version" they have now sent you something which does require a signature? (If so, do they have a copy with your signature on it?) Does the date (or salary or other item on this version indicate it was provided at the beginning of your employment or at some later point?

[Deleted User]

Well you've enjoyed 8 years without the need to need to go anywhere. Even I reached 5 years at £12,600 resignation was a day less in advance when it came so comes to 1 months service. And if I remember this forum, it was that I was lying despite knowing no one who in 2012 would be delighted with a poor salary of just past 12k for years spent!

Athough it's often poo-pood by sales managers who aren't even slightly hospitality but happy to take home big figures for doing nothing.

Some of us have been let go within days at no extra pay. Done 5 years service at £12,600 when other mse's think it's like You must be lying when Not at all.. ...

JReacher1

Deleted%20User wrote: »

Well you've enjoyed 8 years without the need to need to go anywhere. Even I reached 5 years at £12,600 resignation was a day less in advance when it came so comes to 1 months service. And if I remember this forum, it was that I was lying despite knowing no one who in 2012 would be delighted with a poor salary of just past 12k for years spent!

Athough it's often poo-pood by sales managers who aren't even slightly hospitality but happy to take home big figures for doing nothing.

Some of us have been let go within days at no extra pay. Done 5 years service at £12,600 when other mse's think it's like You must be lying when Not at all.. ...

I’m having real trouble trying to understand this post!

KatrinaWaves

And the rest. Every post on the employment board has a random nonsensical diatribe by said poster. They used to make some sense but now it’s utter random sentences strung together.

[Deleted User]

KatrinaWaves wrote: »

And the rest. Every post on the employment board has a random nonsensical diatribe by said poster. They used to make some sense but now it’s utter random sentences strung together.

So how about some compassion instead of judgement.

Deleted User - davyjones a poster on a different thread mentioned he was concerned about you and so am I. It might be an idea to see the doctor, just to make sure all is okay and no issues of stress or anything like that.

74jax

JReacher1 wrote: »

I’m having real trouble trying to understand this post!

No one ever can....

None make sense, none relate to the op and they are all about a job once owned, a friend who once owned a job similar or the neighbour's cat's best friend's owner who was in the exact same position.

74jax

[Deleted User] wrote:

So how about some compassion instead of judgement.

Deleted User - davyjones a poster on a different thread mentioned he was concerned about you and so am I. It might be an idea to see the doctor, just to make sure all is okay and no issues of stress or anything like that.

I think because it has gone on for so long and at times VERY direct argumentative posts aimed at reasonable advice.

If keepcalmandstsyoutofdebt kept the same story in all posts it would be easier, but when it is clearly a contradiction of previous information given it is hard to offer advise without questioning. And then you accused of not believing.

Jreacher1 purely said they couldn't understand the reply. And I can't either. There's nothing judgemental about that. It's a fact. And if you can't understand a reply, either ask for clarification as it could actually help the op, or ignore - in which case what's the point in it being there.....

KatrinaWaves

It is very frustrating for those who spend a lot of time on this forum given sound employment and employment law advice day after day (we all know who these people are) to have their advice sidetracked and contradicted by random anecdotal advice by someone who has worked in every industry, been unfairly dismissed, been through every type of tribunal, been discriminated away in every way, at interview, at application, in the job, every type of employment issue possible.

The anecdotes are usually 'odd' or don't actually follow how the legal procedure should go. So either they've been extremely unlucky in every single one of their dozens of jobs, or its misleading. Most people on here have a consistent history, they don't jump in on every thread because their expertise and experience doesn't fit into every category or query on this forum. Except for one notable exception, and when it son every thread, and theres an anecdote for every situation it becomes very tiring. I suspect many people have this poster on ignore.

Until recently the posts at least had some relation to the query of the OP, recently its just been used as a jumping off point for a random post, such as this example. The post bears no relation to the query of the OP

elsien

Ok, I wasn't going to post any more but I'm going to break my rule as a one off.

Keepcalm posted in the summer to say that they had seen the doctor and been signed off for two months. It's none of our business what or why but I would hope that they are able to go back to the GP if needed and that any help is being given.

In the meantime, however frustrating other posters may find some of the posts, I don't think it's particularly helpful to anyone to keep picking up on it. Past experience has shown it doesn't change anything. There is an ignore button for anyone who wants to use it.

That's all I wanted to say and won't be commenting further.