What is a calendar month?

Grendels

I'm trying to find out what "calendar month" means in an employment contract? I've viewed the Irish Statute Book site, which says that a month is a calendar month, but doesn't seem to say what calendar month means.

For example, if my employment contract says I must give one calendar month's notice before ending employment, does that mean that if I hand in my notice today (15 Oct), my last day of work would be 14 Nov? Or would the last day be 30 Nov?

Is there a legal definition of calendar month?

golden lane

Grendels wrote: »

I'm trying to find out what "calendar month" means in an employment contract? I've viewed the Irish Statute Book site, which says that a month is a calendar month, but doesn't seem to say what calendar month means.

For example, if my employment contract says I must give one calendar month's notice before ending employment, does that mean that if I hand in my notice today (15 Oct), my last day of work would be 14 Nov? Or would the last day be 30 Nov?

Is there a legal definition of calendar month?

a calander month, is exactly as it says.......it starts on the first day of any month......and ends on the last day of that month......

so, you finish work on the last day of the month......simple.

Mr. Loverman

A lot of Irish law comes from English law.

In the 3rd edition of Halsbury's Laws of England, volume 37, the authors wrote:

"When the period prescribed is a calendar month running from any arbitrary date the period expires with the day in the succeeding month immediately preceding the day corresponding to the date upon which the period starts: save that, if the period starts at the end of a calendar month which contains more days than the next succeeding month, the period expires at the end of the latter month."

So if you hand in your notice today (15 Oct), your last day of work would be 14 Nov.