two weeks notice
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- 2weeks
Say you give your employer 3 weeks notice out of courtesy...
Do they legally have to at LEAST pay you for 2 weeks if they do not wish to keep you on staff once they hear the news.
I am just asking this because my current boss is kinda of a hot head... and am not sure how he will react.
- meffid0
Check your contract.
I had to give a months notice but had 4 weeks holiday. Walked out the next day on "leave".
Depends on country, and your pay period.. monthly or weekly etc.
- meffid0
Talk to HR in advance (if applicable).
- ukit0
If you work in an "at-will" employment state, your employer can fire you at any time for any reason and you can quit at any time for any reason.
- 2weeks0
so should I just not give notice? I mean whats the point.
- Continuity0
The point is word gets round. If you do everything by the book, no-one can fault you, or tell future employers you got up and left just like that, leaving them in the lurch, which is generally frowned upon.
- Knuckleberry0
always give notice... its their call once you tell them.
- jon_d0
you are quitting qbn?
- utopian0
Simply give your two week notice, if your boss goes nuts, just walk out the door.
- ukit0
Theoretically word could get around.
However an increasingly common practice with employers these days is that they will avoid commenting at all on any of this to future employers. Instead simply representing the time you worked there.
- capn_ron0
I'm wondering if anyone of you posters is answering your 2weeks moniker to be even more under the radar?
Anyway, they don't have to pay you 2 weeks unless they make you work it.
- meffid0
Don't know about law in the US.
Be polite, thankful, let them know why you're moving on to something else and that you'll help out with extra notice 1 or 2 weeks if required. But You're giving them two.
You might want to freelance there down the track or something.They can (as far as I know) pay you for those two weeks and make you leave immediately. Or let you see the two weeks out, pay you and then cash out your holiday pay too.
- meffid0
You should have employment disputes hotline or something you can call. Check your contract and post details.
- Frosty_spl0
Be nice and give them two weeks, then a farewell email to everyone in the company. People will like you and you maybe able to freelance for them while working for your other company =)
- CyBrainX0
Why are you giving 3 weeks notice instead of 2?