Help with notice period

[aspiring]

My notice period according to my contract is in my offer letter.

I joined my workplace 6 years ago and in the offer letter then notice was set to a month.

I have had 1 promotion since then and for this I got a letter. However I have misplaced that letter although HR may still have a copy. I cannot recall what notice was on that.

Usually for my position, notice is 12 weeks but luckily the contract says whatever is on offer letter.

How can I chance a one month notice? There is a chance HR do not have copy either.

 

[Jim99]

You can always chance a shorter period, though I feel like 1 week would probably raise some eyebrows.

If you said "1 month as per my contract and offer letter", there's a decent chance nobody would bother to check.

Ultimately, the power they have is that if you go beyond what you're contractually obliged to, they can attempt to recover costs from you.

However, that's often really hard to define and I don't think it happens very often. If you are doing something fairly unique and could plausibly be replaced by a contractor on £500 per day, I would be a bit more wary of them coming after me for costs than if I was one of 100 employees doing virtually the same thing.

 

[aspiring]

You can always chance a shorter period, though I feel like 1 week would probably raise some eyebrows.

If you said "1 month as per my contract and offer letter", there's a decent chance nobody would bother to check.

Ultimately, the power they have is that if you go beyond what you're contractually obliged to, they can attempt to recover costs from you.

However, that's often really hard to define and I don't think it happens very often. If you are doing something fairly unique and could plausibly be replaced by a contractor on £500 per day, I would be a bit more wary of them coming after me for costs than if I was one of 100 employees doing virtually the same thing.

Yeah I will go for 1 month.

If they turn around and say we have a copy that said you give 2 months notice, guess I can always change my 1 month?

 

[Jim99]

Yeah I will go for 1 month.

If they turn around and say we have a copy that said you give 2 months notice, guess I can always change my 1 month?

Yeah, no reason in that case you can't say you had no idea and ask them to show you the evidence.

 

[brendy]

My notice period according to my contract is in my offer letter.

I joined my workplace 6 years ago and in the offer letter then notice was set to a month.

I have had 1 promotion since then and for this I got a letter. However I have misplaced that letter although HR may still have a copy. I cannot recall what notice was on that.

Usually for my position, notice is 12 weeks but luckily the contract says whatever is on offer letter.

How can I chance a one month notice? There is a chance HR do not have copy either.

When I resigned in September I stated 1 month unless corrected, turned out it was 3 months but was fine with that as I found my contract shortly after amd comfirmed this.

 

[dowie]

Usually for my position, notice is 12 weeks but luckily the contract says whatever is on offer letter.

How can I chance a one month notice? There is a chance HR do not have copy either.

You could just resign and in your formal resignation email/letter just put in writing that you're handing in your notice today, expect your last working day to be [insert correctly calculated date 1 month or 4 weeks or whatever from that day].

If you don't have a non-compete at this workplace and your other thread is about the new job then it's up to you really... not much they can do if you just say you're only working 1 month or even if you just walk out on them. In theory, they could sue you but it's unlikely as they're not likely to gain much from that.

Also most employers don't want someone around who really really doesn't want to be there. Ideally, you should really try to find the letter because if it also states 1 month then you're sorted regardless but if it is supposed to be 3 months then the next question is do you mind burning bridges there, obvs try and keep your coworkers happy so you're a person who they'll happily recommend in future so do make sure to have a smooth handover in the 1 month notice period but I guess you're going to risk upsetting some people in management if you're leaving early.

 

[jaybee]

Dear Boss, cc HR,

Please take this email as formal notice of my resignation with immediate effect commencing today <insert date>.

Kind regards
OP


-- Later that day --


Dear OP,

Thank you for your email dated <date> stating your resignation and commencement of notice period. I can confirm that your last day with the company has been calculated to be <leave date>.

Regards
HR



If they come back with the leave date you want, cool.
If they don't, then speak to them stating what you believe/want it to be.