My contract states that I should give 6 weeks termination notice but I am only giving 4, what can they do?
Can the dock wages? What is likely to happen?
Anyone know anything about the legality of this?
The reason is I got confused with my old employment and thought it was 4 weeks as I did not have a copy of my contract.
I am waiting to hear back from HR but was just wondering if anyone knew anything. I work in a large finance / law company.
depends
worst case scenario
they can make you work the additional two weeks, or make you stay at home
they can dock you 2 weeks wages
legally you have to give them 6 weeks notice, so you are in the wrong, breaking your contract of employment
depending on how many holidays you may have accruing they may offset those against the residual 2 weeks.
But I suspect they will probably turn a blind eye and let you go. some companies play hardball.. and will make you work the full notice period, some play another form of hardball and ‘evict’ you as soon as you hand your notice.
it depends on the employer and how they feel about you, how they rate your work and how sensitive your work is.
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