Notice to leave job

K9sandFelines

I've been in my current job since the end of Jan 2019.
I've been looking for a new job; and today i did an interview and job trial somewhere else, and was offered the position.
My current job doesn't state in my contract how much notice I need to give. It mentions.nothing about ending your job. It says consult the employee handbook; but as far as I am aware there isn't one or company intranet.
Does this mean I can give a week's notice; as I've been there longer than a month (as per.gov.uk)?

Thrugelmir

Give a week and see what the response is! 

Neil_Jones

You may be in breach of your contract if you don’t give enough notice, or give notice verbally when it should be given in writing. Your employer could take you to court.

You need to find out what your notice period is from the company, maybe HR department can help.  As a general rule while one week is the minimum, four weeks is more likely the norm.depending on the size of the company., especially if they need to recruit somebody else to fill your position after you leave.  It would probably be better to give more notice than you actually need to.

K9sandFelines

Thrugelmir said:

Give a week and see what the response is! 

I was going with this as a minimum, as it doesn't say anywhere for this particular company.

K9sandFelines

Neil_Jones said:

You may be in breach of your contract if you don’t give enough notice, or give notice verbally when it should be given in writing. Your employer could take you to court.

You need to find out what your notice period is from the company, maybe HR department can help.  As a general rule while one week is the minimum, four weeks is more likely the norm.depending on the size of the company., especially if they need to recruit somebody else to fill your position after you leave.  It would probably be better to give more notice than you actually need to.

Going off previous employment I would also say it was a month, but I've had a job where it was a week. 
I already thought about contacting HR; but I feared the person would mention it to the director before i get a chance to put it in writing, and pass it to my manager.

General_Grant

K9sandFelines said:

Neil_Jones said:

You may be in breach of your contract if you don’t give enough notice, or give notice verbally when it should be given in writing. Your employer could take you to court.

You need to find out what your notice period is from the company, maybe HR department can help.  As a general rule while one week is the minimum, four weeks is more likely the norm.depending on the size of the company., especially if they need to recruit somebody else to fill your position after you leave.  It would probably be better to give more notice than you actually need to.

Going off previous employment I would also say it was a month, but I've had a job where it was a week. 
I already thought about contacting HR; but I feared the person would mention it to the director before i get a chance to put it in writing, and pass it to my manager.

Employment with other organisations doesn't matter.  What counts here is what is the situation with this employer. 

Was the offer you received from the new employer subject to receipt of satisfactory references or conditional on anything else? 

When do they want you to start? 

You mention having done a job trial so is it actually possible in terms of hours involved to do both jobs at the same time if necessary?

K9sandFelines

General_Grant said:

K9sandFelines said:

Neil_Jones said:

You may be in breach of your contract if you don’t give enough notice, or give notice verbally when it should be given in writing. Your employer could take you to court.

You need to find out what your notice period is from the company, maybe HR department can help.  As a general rule while one week is the minimum, four weeks is more likely the norm.depending on the size of the company., especially if they need to recruit somebody else to fill your position after you leave.  It would probably be better to give more notice than you actually need to.

Going off previous employment I would also say it was a month, but I've had a job where it was a week. 
I already thought about contacting HR; but I feared the person would mention it to the director before i get a chance to put it in writing, and pass it to my manager.

Employment with other organisations doesn't matter.  What counts here is what is the situation with this employer. 

Was the offer you received from the new employer subject to receipt of satisfactory references or conditional on anything else? 

When do they want you to start? 

You mention having done a job trial so is it actually possible in terms of hours involved to do both jobs at the same time if necessary?

I'm waiting for a response off HR now.

They've took me on. No mention of references. Said sort out my notice to leave and let them know, then they would sort out hours. Explained it may be a week or a month and explained why. This was before the job offer.

Not possible to do both due to locality (I use public transport) and times of the different shifts.

MEM62

Neil_Jones said:

You may be in breach of your contract if you don’t give enough notice, or give notice verbally when it should be given in writing. 

How so?  There is no notice period stated in the contract.  The employer in this instance have been naive.  

Neil_Jones said:

Your employer could take you to court.

For what?  OK, technically they could seek to recover any losses / costs incurred by the employee not working their notice period.  However, it is rarely worth the employer doing so and almost all would not bother.  

OP:  Perhaps instead of asking specifically abut your notice period, you should have just asked for a copy of the employee handbook - this keeping the cat well and truly in the bag.