Notice period.

[si_c]

@si_c - 3 months in the NHS is fairly typical. I think SWMBO is on a 6-month notice period as she's a specialist clinician. Must check ...

In England it certainly is - up to band 7 it's 4-6 weeks after that it's three months pretty consistently. Clinicians are on different contracts, usually negotiated direct with the trust, so it varies more.

 

[vickster]

When I left my previous permanent job in 2014, I was on 6 months notice. Think I worked 3 agreed with the company. 6 months was both ways, plenty of times I willed redundancy when there were cuts!!
I'm on 3 months now, was 1 month on the year FTCs before I went permanent about 18 months ago

 

[Regular.Cyclist]

I knew someone about 10 years ago who worked in a recruitment agency. When anyone in the company was leaving they would resign in writing and would be expected to pack their stuff and leave that same day. They were then paid for the following 6 months but effectively banned from taking up employment with any of the competitors during that time.

 

[markemark]

I knew someone about 10 years ago who worked in a recruitment agency. When anyone in the company was leaving they would resign in writing and would be expected to pack their stuff and leave that same day. They were then paid for the following 6 months but effectively banned from taking up employment with any of the competitors during that time.

That is very common in the private sector. People on either resigning or given the push are escorted off the premises there and then. Often the notice period given by the employer is to protect the business not help on the knowledge. It’s to cut off the employee from all systems and prevent them from starting a new role whilst the employer mitigates.

 

[annedonnelly]

@annedonnelly - I'm guessing they were hoping you'd regret your choice, decide to stay and take your resignation back

No, just not organised enough to make use of the notice period.

 

[Homers Double]

1 week, I finished my apprenticeship and left.

It wasn’t the plan and the employer knew we had a family business but I didn’t intend on working there until I was around 30. Outside experience etc.

Things take a turn and that was how it was, I got a car park grilling off the MD but told him that the same company made my cousin redundant at the end of his “time” as there wasn’t a job.

Double standards?

 

[Drago]

I wonder if Prinde Andrew will have to serve a notice period?

 

[Stevo 666]

I'm on 6 months which suits me fine as I don't intend to leave.

 

[sevenfourate]

Contract says one. I’d give my Boss two. And while absolutely not irreplaceable - it would take someone decent 6 months to get a full handle on my role.

**Ive just observed a General Engineering Manager / customer of mine - in a company employing 800 people and who are very mechanised: be forced to endure 3 months notice. (He unsurprisingly gave little effort from a long way out; to leaving Yesterday). Communication was lost, stuff got missed, mistakes were made blah blah

And despite the Company having those 3 months to sort a replacement - one week ago they announced one of the 4 main Floor Managers (Who’s already incredibly stretched / needed / relied upon) would temporarily take his place. As well as still carrying out his current position 🙄

I’m struggling to see what happened in 3 months that couldn’t have happened in 2 weeks……🙄

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Indeed. I had that at a previous job, where almost all of us were made redundant after the company (Nelson Thornes, an educational publisher) was taken over by OUP, and what jobs there were moved to Oxford (from Cheltenham).

Most of us in the IT department were asked to stay until all the code and data had been migrated to the OUP systems, and we were given a 3 month bonus if we did. Then at the end, Redundancy pay (about 1.5 times statutory and I'd been there 7 years and was over 45), plus three months pay in lieu of that 3 months notice. My final pay packet was over a years worth of normal salary - and I found another job less than 6 eeks later

Where I used to work (until 2001) you got redundancy pay at an escalating rate depending on how long you had worked there
I had been there just under 20 years so I got 3 times my annual salary

Apparently I would have got taxed to Hell and back on the bit over a certain amount
so I opted to pay that into my pension - which I now benefit from
(and my ex doesn't!!!)

worked out well at the time - although I am still annoyed about the redundancy - which I believe was mostly because the manager didn;t like me as I had loads of work on at the time

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

My last company used to be great, then a new woman was put in charge and the firings started. I was in sales. My mate was asked to drop by the office and when he got there he was taken to a room where a guy from an external agency told him he had no future in the company, he had to sign an agreement with a payoff and leave immediately. 17 years with the company. She did it to so many people that you started to recognise her signals - the snarky Teams messages, cutting people out of the loop. I saw it coming and resigned, heading for a competitor (who agreed to cover the costs of any legal consequences).

She went NUTS. I was immediately put on 3 months gardening leave with an additional 6 months where I couldn’t work in the same industry. I told her to shove it, she sued me for over £90k. She then spent 130k trying to sue me and my new employer. Her case collapsed the day before the court hearing and she had to pay all costs.

With hindsight, everyone on her hitlist was put on 3 month's notice compared to the previous 1 month. She figured that put her in control.

 

[Drago]

I never signed nuffin' in my career, much to the annoyance of bullies and those that wanted to take liberties with police regs or employment law.

"But you've got to sign it!"

Yeah, right. Good luck trying to make me.

Such matters are only ever for the convience of the person requesting the signature.

 

[Regular.Cyclist]

Previously I had a team member who refused to sign their new JD following organisational that had been going on for two years. The unions had been involved and everything agreed with them but this individual still refused to sign.

The issue was never pushed as, despite passive objections they worked to the new JD, and have continued to do so since.

 

[markemark]

She went NUTS. I was immediately put on 3 months gardening leave with an additional 6 months where I couldn’t work in the same industry. I told her to shove it, she sued me for over £90k. She then spent 130k trying to sue me and my new employer. Her case collapsed the day before the court hearing and she had to pay all costs.

Were these restrictions in your contract?

 

[potsy]

Mine was 3 months which I thought was excessive.
Tried to negotiate a reduced period but they were having now of it.

Ended up doing 2 and going sick for the last couple of weeks ( Christmas break too)

Mine was due to time served rather than the nature of the job.