Handing notice in over Christmas shutdown help!?

npritch

TELLIT01 wrote: »

If you hand it in at close of business on the 20th they won't have time to act and potentially end your employment one week later on the 28th. Not a course of action I would normally suggest, but if they haven't reacted well when others have handed their notice in it may be your best option.

I thought this too, feels mean to hand my 1 week notice in a day before we close. But the last girl that handed her notice in was told to leave that day and they would pay her weeks notice without her needing to come back in. And that was only from a little fall out as they blamed her for something she didn't do. So doesn't fill me with much hope that they will be understanding when I hand my notice in.

Bexgrossman

npritch wrote: »

I thought this too, feels mean to hand my 1 week notice in a day before we close. But the last girl that handed her notice in was told to leave that day and they would pay her weeks notice without her needing to come back in. And that was only from a little fall out as they blamed her for something she didn't do. So doesn't fill me with much hope that they will be understanding when I hand my notice in.

Just don't bother giving them notice? Go on sick assuming they don't have sck pay. Easy. f them

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npritch wrote: »

My plan is to hand it in on Thursday 19th December stating it is a 2 week notice but I'm worried I'm either going to be made to work the 1st week back from the shutdown or they will simply say its a 1 week notice only and I will then lose a weeks pay.

The least of your worries if old employer won't give your new one a reference - and they deem it however important.

I would give notice when you are required to in line with your contract. (Failing that statutory guidelines) personally I think the date you propose is fine but then my current employer is the only one to do Xmas shutdown in my working history.

wouldn't go on by what happened to so and so - at the end of October in my last role I had someone telling me I was unfair not giving more then a week's notice and was leaving at the wrong time who approach was far from don't go either (sorry pal could have done it Xmas week when none of the staff wanted to work!!) - only in the summer I watched someone who fought at one point for a more permanent contact then I ever had and at a year's service simply wonder of at 2 weeks smelling of roses. At zero hours, 5 months of service I was quite the wronged person when it suited you bet. And I'm still waiting to hear from the company HR... Wasn't the first time and won't be the last so you need to get use to it. If a company tells you they can't deal with your resignation then they are also lying.

elsien

Bexgrossman wrote: »

Just don't bother giving them notice? Go on sick assuming they don't have sck pay. Easy. f them

Aside from not being true, I can't see what the point of that would be anyway?

steampowered

Personally I would either:
- serve the notice now and enjoy a few days off, if financial circumstances alllow
OR
- serve the 1 week notice by email during Xmas week. Before Xmas week just work out who you need to email the notice to (your boss and HR?). You can still serve notice during the break.

npritch wrote: »

I had to keep 5 days of my holiday as stated in my contract for the Christmas shutdown so its all coming out my holiday apart from the bank holidays. And I have 3 days holiday left after that but they will most likely take some of that because the holiday entitlement runs from March.

If holiday runs from 31 March, you are only 3/4 of the way through the holiday year, so on a 28 day entitlement, you have only accrued 21 days.

So if that was the situation and you only had 3 days left of your annual entitlement - you would have 4 days deducted from your final paypacket.