Notice periods
Employers must give employees with between one month and two years’ service a minimum of one week’s notice to terminate their employment. Thereafter, an employer must give a minimum notice period of one week per completed year of service, up to a maximum of 12 weeks. If the contract of employment specifies a longer notice period, the employer should give the contractual notice.
An employee must give one week’s notice to terminate his or her contract of employment. If the contract of employment specifies a longer notice period, the employee should give the contractual notice.
Employers will often pay an employee who resigns or is dismissed in lieu of his or her notice period.
Top 10 HR questions January 2019: Holiday pay, overtime and tax on exit payments
How should employers deal with overtime when calculating holiday pay? Does it make a difference if the overtime is voluntary,...
Top 10 HR questions September 2018 – probation dismissals and unavailable companions
Can you dismiss before a probationary period ends if they're not up to the job?
Top 10 HR questions May 2018: GDPR special category data
Many HR professionals will have spent months preparing for the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Now it is finally in...
How to deal with the risks of departing employees with a grudge
Employees who are leaving under a cloud can cause problems, demonstrated recently when a Twitter employee hid President Trump’s account...
Top 10 HR questions May 2017: Some other substantial reason
Perhaps the general election means that the collective HR consciousness has its mind elsewhere, or maybe it’s the effect of...
Australian employment law: 10 key features
Generous leave entitlements and a unique legal framework characterise Australian employment law. Qian Mou highlights 10 interesting aspects of workplaces...
Employee notice periods: Getting the balance right
New XpertHR Benchmarking research has found that most employers are happy with the way notice periods work at their organisation, ...
Withdrawal of job offer made by agency costs employer £3,000
An employment tribunal has ordered an employer to pay breach of contract damages after it withdrew a job offer made...
Top 10 HR questions July 2016: Brexit
As the result of the referendum on the UK’s membership of the EU sank in during July, employers began looking...
Employee notice periods: take part in our survey
XpertHR is running a short benchmarking survey on employee notice periods, focusing on resignations outside the probationary period.
Take part...
Top 10 HR questions May 2016: Pro rata bank holidays
With two bank holidays falling on Mondays in May, it is perhaps unsurprising that a question on pro rata bank holiday entitlement was the most popular on XpertHR in May.
How do you calculate redundancy pay when making a payment in lieu of notice (PILON)?
Redundancy payments are calculated based on an employee’s length of service. But what happens if an employee who is paid...
How could changes to tax-free termination payments affect employers?
As part of the Summer Budget, the Chancellor announced plans to change the tax treatment of termination payments and the...
