Handing in notice: 1 month falls on weekend

fungie

I might be handing my notice in soon. My contract states that the notice period is a month and I'm aware the notice period begins the day after you hand it in, i.e. you want your last day to be the 15th of June for example, so you hand in your notice on May 14th. My question is, what if May 14th is a weekend?

The obvious answer is hand it in on the Friday before the weekend but that means 1 month from that date would be before the 15th June, using the example above. This may seem like a very minor thing, which it is, but I want to get opinions on what is the correct thing to do.

There are 2 options I see currently

1) Hand in the notice on the 14th May via email, even though it's a weekend, thus fulfilling the criteria set out in the contract. (why contracts that say 4/5 weeks instead of using months I don't know)

2) Hand it in on the Friday saying the last day is June 15th and hope they don't enforce finishing up earlier, this is something they technically can do.

This is very much a first world problem but I find the ambiguity annoying.

Purple Mountain

I always thought one month constituted as 4 working weeks?
Ie. 4 x "Mon to Fri"?

dobman88

A bigger problem would be travelling back to the 14th of May to hand in the notice

Purple Mountain

So if you handed in your notice this Monday say, you'd be finished on the fourth Friday from that day?

ShatterAlan

Can't your last day be a weekend day?


I mean for HR purposes you are an employee on the weekend as much as you are an employee during the week, you just happen to be off those days.

cdeb

fungie wrote: »

2) Hand it in on the Friday saying the last day is June 15th and hope they don't enforce finishing up earlier, this is something they technically can do.

This is what would normally happen I would say.

In reality, the employer is unlikely to argue over a day or two.

Alternatively, e-mailing it in on the Saturday would be fine too. Though the former would probably be better. E-mail is maybe a bit of a cold way to hand in notice; face-to-face with your manager would be more common I would have thought (or over the phone, if the office is closed)

OMM 0000

You're completely overthinking this.

The solution is to talk to your manager now, explain you will be giving your notice, you love your job, etc., and say you would like to finish up on day X.

That's it.

I don't really understand why people don't talk anymore...

fungie

OMM 0000 wrote: »

You're completely overthinking this.

The solution is to talk to your manager now, explain you will be giving your notice, you love your job, etc., and say you would like to finish up on day X.

That's it.

I don't really understand why people don't talk anymore...

I'm aware of the common sense approach. I was just interested in, how strictly speaking, it should be done by the letter of a contract.

cdeb

Once you agree something, that should supersede what the strict letter of the contract is.

Especially around something as trivial as this, it will be very easy to agree something.

I think you're overthinking it tbh.