pslewis

What would be considered 'Reasonable Notice' for an Employee to give if they worked 12 hours per week.

They are paid monthly.

The Employer is demanding 4 weeks - I consider that is unreasonable for a 12 hour per week job.

The Employee is over 18 years old.

Not sure what the Contract of Employment says ....... but, is 4 weeks a reasonable demand?

Any Employment experts on here?

NotoriousREV

Is this a job that the person needs to get a reference from? If it's a McJob then give a week and no more. If it's more important than that then be prepared to do 4 weeks, although I agree it's a long time for the employee, it may be dropping the employer in the poop (their problem not yours).

Coffin Dodger

If paid monthly 4 weeks notice is pretty standard whether you work full or part time. It will be in the contract somewhere.

Put yourself in the employers shoes, regardless of whether the employee works 38 hours or 1 hour a week they still have to find someone to take over the position. Four weeks is not an unreasonable amount of time to ask to do this

Decided to jack in your trolley collecting job at Morrisons then?

DCI Gene Hunt

The Law on such states:

The proper notice that your employer must give should be specified in your contract of employment. If a notice period has not been expressly agreed, your employment may be terminated upon 'reasonable' notice. What is reasonable depends on factors such as your seniority, age, length of service, remuneration and what is usual in your profession or industry.
Whatever the contractual provisions for termination of the contract, the notice actually given must not be less than the statutory minimum period of notice, which is as follows:

• Employee's length of service less than 1 month - No notice period
• Employee's length of service is 1 month to 2 years - 1 week
• Employee's length of service is 2 to 3 years - 2 weeks
• Plus an additional week for each year of continuous employment to a maximum of 12 weeks

If proper notice isn't given, you should have a claim for wrongful dismissal (see below).

So I guess 1 to 2 weeks MAXIMUM

PS the above was taken from here

OllyK

Unless the employment contract states more, those figures are MINIMUMs

DCI Gene Hunt

They sure are

tony95

the required notice for an EMPLOYEE to give if paid weekly- one week.
if paid monthly-one month.
as a general rule,unless contract states otherwise

Luminous

iTrader: (3)

In reality people tend to become ill and uncommited in their last weeks/months of work. Quite often the employer will just want shot of them.

DazW

iTrader: (1)

Actually there's no such thing as a maximum or minimum to notice period & this is regardless of what your contract states ...just as mentioned above 'a reasonable amount of time' is all that is required & in most cases that's linked to how often you are paid. However a Company can try & make a claim for compensation if, as a result of your departure they can prove it was detrimental to them ...& as far as im aware (& it was still the case about 2 years ago) no one was has ever been succesfully sued on those grounds ...dont ask how i know

mart360

pslewis

Nah, it's not me ............

And maybe a car will have to go within 6 months - but that will be to make way for a brand new one