Notice period at work...HELP

I've just been offered a full time job and I've accepted the offer, I'm currently part time and just told my boss. My new job starts on the 2nd of November but she wants 4 weeks notice..I can't give her that much time because the position of the new job will go. I think my contract might say 4 weeks I can't remember!! Where do I stand with this. Anyone know. She is now looking for my replacement because I'm looking for work!


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Speak to your new employer, explain the situation. If they still need you for 2 Nov. then go for it - they may try to dock you pay for breach of contract but I doubt it, and you'll be better off in the long run.

 

Chuck on't sick

 

just tell ure boss to ballax.....it's empowering, believe thereev

hth

 

Have you got any leave left? - take that off for a start but remember its pro-rata for the time you've worked this year.

Both parties can amend the terms of a contract though, so see if you can work more hours next week to make up for the early leaving date?

 

Pour a can of coke over there head and tell um to ballax!

 

1 week notice for every year your have been employed. Up to 10 years This can obviously be negotiated with your manager , that's how we work things at our place


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Also if you worked a week or a month in hand when you started the job .. you should be owed that back.

 

No I didn't work anything in advance! I've been there just under a year and I get paid monthly. Basically at end of month she gets my time sheet and pays me simple as that! Really don't know what to do


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walk away and tell her to shino.....

if you don't you'll lose the new job and your current boss will know you wanna leave anyway......so you'll be fekked anyway.

just tell her you will work while 1st nov and say ''that's yer lot yer daft bint!!''

hth

 

A lot of it depends on what sort of jobs they are, what the industry is and what level you're at.

First check your contract to make sure it does actually say four weeks - if it does then that will overturn any statutory notice periods. Do you have any holiday that you're owed to bring the notice period down? Then you need to talk to both employers - but keep calm! The new company definitely want you to work there, the old company will be resigned to leaving you and just want as much as they can get out of you before you go.

First speak to the new one - it's pretty unusual for an organisation to offer you a job and expect you to start in ten days. If you can then great, but at least a month is standard across all industries I've worked in, some recent jobs I've had have required two months. It may be that they'll be willing to be flexible on your start date. Look at it this way: if they withdraw the offer from you then they'll have to go through the whole recruitment process again, and at the end of it will still probably end up hiring somebody who's already on a month's notice.

If they really want you to start, and you're working part time now, couldn't you offer to start on the 2nd November but part time (the times when you're not working your current job)? Perhaps you could even reduce your hours slightly at your current one and do a bit more at the new one?

If all else fails you can just tell them that you're leaving (but this is a bit of a nuclear option - it'll affect any future reference you need from them, and you may lose quite a bit of pay depending on timing). I'm confident that it won't come to that, though - this is a common situation, and your new employer will have seen it before. My prediction is that if you talk to them and explain about the notice period then they'll be happy to push your start date back by a couple of weeks, or accept you starting on a two or three days a week. And remember - this is completely normal! Nothing to panic about.

When you went through your interview process for your new job, did they not ask when you'd be able to start work? For future reference, it's probably best to put your notice period on an application.

Scoff's advice is good as well - again, depending on your position, an offer of working full time up until the 2nd November to make up the missing hours may be accepted.

 

Some people turn up to work and are told to clear their desks and be off the premises in the hour.
What really can they do about it.
For what it costs them to mess about, particularly part time , is not worth the hassle or money.
Think they are peeved you have got a full time job.

 

And generally they will serve their notice period at home being paid. This is often known as gardening leave.

 

Cheers for all the suggestions and answers


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I suppose it depends on wether you need a reference in the future but you've been there less than a year and part time I wouldn't have any qualms about saying to your boss ' it's a full time post and they need me on the 2 nd unless you are offering me a full time job on the same money and prospects , thanks for everything but I'm off'

 

Laymans terms from management experience -

Just start your new job. Shows you're keen. Explain the situation to your new employers. If they then say to fulfil your notice then it's a win win. Do it, don't burn any bridges coz you never know!?! Find out if not fulfilling would cost you £ cos it's dependant on your contract, hols taken/left, sick days etc?

 

Start your new job. Don't go on the sick.

They won't sue you, as it won't be in their interests.

Only danger is they give you a bad reference, if you seek it in the future.

 

good advice

 

I've phoned the new employers today and they said they need me on the 2nd of November, if not they will find a replacement! But my current boss now says she is looking for someone to fill my role because I'm seeking other work..is it a loose loose for me. I have no problem in just leaving next Friday and starting my new job. I get paid next Thursday so! My main worry is that she can sue?? Is that daft thinking or can she.


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