Ending employment

[hammerman]

After being made redundant just after xmas, my wife took another job as a bit of a stop gap in a nursing home as "head of care". She likes it but has a few minor issues but the wages are £4k a year less.

She's now been offered, and accepted another job in a rival care home as manager with the same money as she was on before redundancy.

Trouble is, she doesn't have a contract with her present eployer....well she does but no one has signed it yet so it was given to her as a guide really. The contract says she must give one months notice, however, i would presume that she wouldn't need to give any notice at all (she will give a weeks notice out of curtessy)

I would presume it is satisfactory to give a weeks notice without a signed contract....we think she'll probably be told to leave straigt away anyway.

Thanks

HM

[boxtops]

If the contract says one month then I believe that's what she has to give, whether or not she's signed it. Why is it not signed?

[hammerman]

They haven't asked for it back yet and she's on a 6 month pobation period....i presumed the contract would be effective from after the probation

[ojread2]

Signed or not she does have a contract

[Twenty20]

The minimum notice she must give is one week - that's the statutory notice period for an employee who has been employed for more than a month. She wouldn't be giving a week's notice as a 'courtesy' but out of a legal requirement as the minimum notice.

She does actually have a contract, albeit that she hasn't signed it. Technically she should give one month's notice as per her contract but there's very little an employer can do if the employee insists on only working one week instead of a month. It may affect any reference she gets in the future from this employer however. I'd be surprised, for instance, if her potential new employer wouldn't want a reference from the current employer, so she needs to be careful.

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