Notice

zuutroy

My contract says I have to give one month's notice to leave, and they have to give me one week for every year's employment (<1yr in my case) if they want rid of me.
Does this mean that if say, I handed in notice on for arguments sake, the 1st of May, I would be guaranteed to be paid to the end of May, or could they turn around and say, 'actually WE'RE giving YOU one weeks notice', and I only get paid until May 8th?
Thanks.

leeroybrown

You should be guaranteed your months's pay unless you agree a shortened notice period with them. If they tried what you are suggesting it would be a very dodgy behaviour.

Tom Dunne

Having worked for the company you work for zuutroy, and having handed in my notice and left them last year, I would be very surprised if they tried something like that.

Only in extreme circumstances would they pull a stunt like that.

leeroybrown

Tom's post has made me realise that you work for someone I used to work for too. They'd never pull a stunt like that.

Oh, and you'll probably be happier when you leave too...

zuutroy

leeroybrown wrote:

Oh, and you'll probably be happier when you leave too...

Of that, I have no doubt! Like a lot of people it ain't for me.

delly

Come on lads, we need to know what company your working for. Use rhyming slang if you must .

Tom Dunne

The phrase "In Hell" is for some reason foremost in my mind at the moment.

zuutroy

delly wrote:

Come on lads, we need to know what company your working for. Use rhyming slang if you must .

The opposite to out, plus the 2nd word of Terry Venables nickname! Hows that?

Heinrich

zuutroy wrote:

The opposite to out, plus the 2nd word of Terry Venables nickname! Hows that?

AMD not!

delly

Well done on the descriptions, i'll cross it off my future employer list

Our man in Havana

As shall I.

Tom Dunne

In fairness they are not the worst.

If you are a career orientated, dedicated, reliable, ambitious, malleable, weak-minded, kind of person who doesn't mind "the American Way" and is willing to give up any kind of social life, and tolerate endless amount of bull, countless late-evening meetings and a generous supply of lick-arses, then this company is for you.

Otherwise, you may want to look elsewhere.


I'm not bitter.

zuutroy

tom dunne wrote:

In fairness they are not the worst.

If you are a career orientated, dedicated, reliable, ambitious, malleable, weak-minded, kind of person who doesn't mind "the American Way" and is willing to give up any kind of social life, and tolerate endless amount of bull, countless late-evening meetings and a generous supply of lick-arses, then this company is for you.

Otherwise, you may want to look elsewhere.


I'm not bitter.

The man speaks the truth....ah well, I'll be getting parole around the start of June, what better time to jump ship. Spending a Winter in here was tough.
Did you manage to pinpoint the time when seemingly normal people turn into acronym spouting, live-to-workers?

seamus

!AMD bashing aside, the employer can't really do that. They do have the right to waive the notice though, provided that you agree.

Tom Dunne

zuutroy wrote:

Did you manage to pinpoint the time when seemingly normal people turn into acronym spouting, live-to-workers?

I think the time it takes is directly proportional to their strength of character, and how soon they start referring to everyone as "folks".

Once you hear them using the "f" word, there is no turning back.

Our man in Havana

worse than the scientologists eh? LoL

Sam Vimes

i'm doing work experience there now and it seems nice enough. i only started last month though. i know what you mean about the acronyms. i'm going to bmho* if they don't stop. and the dome shaped mirrors at all crossroads in the office area are hilarious




*blow my head off

Tom Dunne

Commander Vimes wrote:

i'm doing work experience there now and it seems nice enough. i only started last month though.

Ah yes, the old get them in young, show them that it is "a great place to work" trick.

What department are you in? To be honest, co-ops (as you are so eloquently referred to as) are not given a heavy workload and don't have to attend the myriad of tripe-infused meetings.

Commander Vimes wrote:

*blow my head off

ROFL. You are abviosly fitting in very well there.

zuutroy

You'll be glad to know that today they've put plastic footprints on the ground at the bottom of each stairwell, just in case you forget what side the right is.

Tom Dunne

:eek::eek::eek: That's a new low.

I'm all for a safe working environment, but I have always wondered who thinks up these hair-brained ideas.

I remember last year during a particularly bad day, I was still at my desk at 7:30pm, the sun was shining outside and I just stopped to read an e-mail or two. There was a safety e-mail, containing a poem about a woman losing her husband in some form of industrial accident.

I nearly flipped. Here I was working my behind off and some do-gooder, gob****e co-worker was composing poetry about safety!

irishguy

I have heard their other location (further down south) is very nice to work for? But is very hard to get into, they are only interviewing grads with a 1.1 for IT positions

Tom Dunne

No, their IT support is from the main facility, and trust me, the IT department most certainly is not full of 1.1'ers.

That site you are talking about is an R&D facility - they probably require 1.1's for the design/research business.

Sam Vimes

tom dunne wrote:

Ah yes, the old get them in young, show them that it is "a great place to work" trick.

What department are you in? To be honest, co-ops (as you are so eloquently referred to as) are not given a heavy workload and don't have to attend the myriad of tripe-infused meetings.



ROFL. You are abviosly fitting in very well there.

i'd rather not say my department tbh. i don't so much mind the meetings because i just sit there but the classes are laughable. i had my ergonomic assessment the other day. turns out i slouch and i need a foot rest. and i got fitted for a mouse.

madrab

Commander Vimes wrote:

i'd rather not say my department tbh. i don't so much mind the meetings because i just sit there but the classes are laughable. i had my ergonomic assessment the other day. turns out i slouch and i need a foot rest. and i got fitted for a mouse.

but then again you have to remmember the blue green divide in that place....

TheNog

I am working here 3yrs now in the gowned up area. Absolutely working in this area. Also am a contractor, hoping to leave very soon.

WhiteWashMan

zuutroy wrote:

My contract says I have to give one month's notice to leave, and they have to give me one week for every year's employment (<1yr in my case) if they want rid of me.
Does this mean that if say, I handed in notice on for arguments sake, the 1st of May, I would be guaranteed to be paid to the end of May, or could they turn around and say, 'actually WE'RE giving YOU one weeks notice', and I only get paid until May 8th?
Thanks.

what it means is that for the first year of your employment they need to give you one months notice, and yo uneed to give them one months notice.
you can however organise longer, less notice, if it is agreeable to both parties.

the notice period is upped by one week after a years employment, so after a year, you would have to give 5 weeks notice.

id be very surprised if their notice was one week.
besides, you cant have notice less than the time between pay packets, so if you get paid monthly, you have to get a months notice. im almost sure about that one.

of course, if your contract does actually say they only have to give you one weeks notice i nyour first year, then they only have to give you one weeks notice. but if you are resigning, then it will go on the month.
if they are sacking you, or making you redundent, then its ouwld be with the week business....

does that make sense?
was it explained before?
i have a head ache and im going to bed....

seamus

WhiteWashMan wrote:

id be very surprised if their notice was one week.

I wouldn't. I signed a contract which says that I must give my employer one month, while they have to give me what I'm entitled to by law. Since this is my 13th week with them, that's now been upped from zero notice to one week.
More fool me for signing it, but I'm confident that I'll be first in giving notice

besides, you cant have notice less than the time between pay packets, so if you get paid monthly, you have to get a months notice. im almost sure about that one.

Nope. There's nothing in law which states that you cannot be given notice for a period less than the pay period.

Spocker

seamus wrote:

Nope. There's nothing in law which states that you cannot be given notice for a period less than the pay period.

Quite true; there are legal requirements in place under the Minimum Notice & Terms of Employment Act; under section 4(5) of this act though, any written contract between you and the employer takes precedence (including if the period is less than those mentioned in the act)

More info on Oasis as well