Notice Period.

thebloyn

thebloyn

thebloyn

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I have been offered (and accepted) a new job and thus wish to leave my current employer, as I am in the probation period the notice is one week.
Now is this one working week or 7 working days?
Im am due in work later (im on mon-fri this week) and will hand in my resignation then, so legally would one week count as this working week or will I have to work next Monday too?

I did think about leaving right now, as I have just been paid, and they are not the best company to work for, but I think it is best to leave on good terms for references etc.
 
One week equals 7 calendar days or 5 full working days. ie hand your notice in on the Monday & leave the following Monday not the Friday.
 
I'd say it would be one full working week for you, minus any overtime or the like that you may regularly do. So, if for example you work Mon to Fri 0900 - 1730, I'd hand my notice in on Fri, and work the following week, finishig on the following Fri at 1730.

You may be able to neg with your current employer to use up some of your holiday entitlement to cover (at least some of) the notice period though.
 
If there is somebody here in nottingham who needs a job.... After you hand your notice in could somebody potentially walk in with a CV saying they want a job. Do you think they have more chance of getting it?

Surely when you hand in your notice the boss will start flustering a little bit about manning and will need somebody ready to fill that position?

Just a thought...
 
WillyNelson said:
One week equals 7 calendar days or 5 full working days. ie hand your notice in on the Monday & leave the following Monday not the Friday.
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surely that implies work mon-fri then leave? which is 5 working days, the days are inclusive, I most certainly wouldn't work the following monday if I'd handed my notice in on a monday.
 
Which is why you should hand your notice in on the Friday if you intend your last day to be the following Friday. I've always seen it as x number of full working days not counting the day you give notice.

That said, I would always state in my letter of resignation the date which I expect to be my final working day.

Mind you I've only ever resigned twice, once with immediate effect and once with two months notice.
 
WillyNelson said:
One week equals 7 calendar days or 5 full working days. ie hand your notice in on the Monday & leave the following Monday not the Friday.
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What if you hand it in before you start work on the Monday, surely 7 days from that point your contract ends, thus Friday would be your last working day?
 
If you hand your notice in on MONDAY you finish on FRIDAY
FFS its not hard to understand that is it???

This is the way it has always been
 
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