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Giving notice/Christmas holidays

Lynfo · 2018-12-12 17:23:54

Hi, hopefully somebody can answer this for me. An employee has given notice today, his contract states that he must give 4 weeks notice. We finish for Christmas on Friday 21st, should the 4 weeks include the Christmas break or is he obliged to work out the balance of his notice after the break?

12-12-2018 5:23pm

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Hi, hopefully somebody can answer this for me.

An employee has given notice today, his contract states that he must give 4 weeks notice.
We finish for Christmas on Friday 21st, should the 4 weeks include the Christmas break or is he obliged to work out the balance of his notice after the break?

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#2 12-12-2018 6:37pm

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Because I'm a weirdo I went ahead and read the law on this (http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1973/act/4/enacted/en/html) and it is clear notice is literally a notice of time.

So if the contract says "you must give 4 weeks notice", that literally means his last day will be in 4 weeks time, regardless of any days off or holidays during the 4 weeks.

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