Resignation

Healthynotwealthy

Thank you so much for all of your advice- I really do appreciate it.

So I have drafted my resignation to send tomorrow (to my Manager with the Head of Service and HR copied in)  basically stating as per my contract I am supplying with 2 months notice and my last day of employment will be 2nd January. 

..Then my new contract starts 3rd Jan, and THEY will pay me for that BH and I physically start on 4th

Thanks again all 

MovingForwards

General_Grant said:

Healthynotwealthy said:

Thanks- so I hand my notice in tomorrow...
The Christmas leave is basically Bank holidays Monday and Tuesday (as Christmas this year falls on the weekend), and then the Wednesday,. Thursday and Friday of that week are "gifted days" from the company which we get every year- so I am not using any annual leave over Christmas.
If I put my notice in tomorrow, then my last day of employment (although I will have finished before CHristmas) will be Sunday  2nd Jan

Do look at your contract.
I have never heard of "gifted days" but that makes them sound discretionary.  They may still want to deduct these from your entitlement when you leave.
The bank holidays do form part of your annual leave - the part which you know have to be taken each year when there are bank holidays.

My soon to be ex employer does it. Basically they close for Christmas and open again in the new year.  Part of it is covered by bank holiday days, part is extra 'free' days off not taken from any annual leave.

Jaybee_16

General_Grant said:

Do look at your contract.I have never heard of "gifted days" but that makes them sound discretionary.  They may still want to deduct these from your entitlement when you leave.
The bank holidays do form part of your annual leave - the part which you know have to be taken each year when there are bank holidays.

I worked for a company that closed between Christmas and New Year. We were gifted these additional days; they were't taken from annual leave but were discretionary and not contractual even though it was usual practice way before my 15 years there.

TBagpuss

MovingForwards said:

General_Grant said:

Do look at your contract.
I have never heard of "gifted days" but that makes them sound discretionary.  They may still want to deduct these from your entitlement when you leave.
The bank holidays do form part of your annual leave - the part which you know have to be taken each year when there are bank holidays.

My soon to be ex employer does it. Basically they close for Christmas and open again in the new year.  Part of it is covered by bank holiday days, part is extra 'free' days off not taken from any annual leave.

We do it - they extra days are discretionary and it is explicitly stated each year that they are  discretionary and are not guaranteed . 

We wouldn't  not be so petty as to require someone to use holiday just because they had handed in their resignation but I am pretty sure we could, if we wanted to! 

I think this year we are closing on the evening of 23rd, so will be closed over there a 4 non-bank holidays 'working' days - 2 of those re gifted, and the other two are days where everyone is required to take holiday and use part of their entitlement, so everyone gets 4 days off for the 'price' of two (and with the bank holidays gets  7 days off (11 including the weekends) so everyone gets a decent break 

Savvy_Sue

General_Grant said:

Do look at your contract.
I have never heard of "gifted days" but that makes them sound discretionary.  They may still want to deduct these from your entitlement when you leave.
The bank holidays do form part of your annual leave - the part which you know have to be taken each year when there are bank holidays.

This: they're obliged to give the statutory minimum, but this is over and above. Don't bank on being paid for them, then it will be a nice surprise if when you are.

We also give those days,  but the calculation for leave owed on leaving  does not include them. 

Also bear in mind that if your new employer pays you for a BH on your first day, they'll deduct it from your leave allowance. I'd check what they'll do: you're assuming you'll be paid for it, but they might not have realised how the BHs fall.

DrDorset

Just hand in your notice. What can an employer do to stop you starting your new job in January.