How should i handle this, working my notice

Right worked for company 5 years on crap pay. New company is hopefully gonna offer me a new job next week on 50% pay increase.

I dont know how long notice my current company require me to work and i am more thank likely going to get asked this in my interview for the new company next week.

I dont want to ask my current company the question because the new job is not 100% guaranteed yet. What would you do?


If i start asking whats my notice period they will smell somethings going on and treat me different.

[Bri w]

Just ask. How else will you find out? And if you don't get the new job, 3 months down the road your present employer will have forgotten you asked.

[keith_d]

Check the contract you were given when you joined?? If it's not in there ask.

Typically it's 4 weeks.

As a general rule i think that if you are paid weekly then you only need give 1 weeks notice, but if you are monthly paid then it is 4 weeks. This might not be the case at every company though, i'm sure someone else will come along with a definate answer.

i get paid monthly and never signed a contract or received one, mmmmmmmmm.......... i think its 4 weeks but thats just word of mouth.

[fizzwheel]

I would suspect its a month, but I'd just ask my current boss. If you've got no contract then I think it would be difficult to hold you to anything more than a months notice TBH.

If you've got no employment contract and your paid monthly, then it's a month.

[andrewsmith]

It'll be 1 month.
Its normally longer if your a director etc...

Whether you are paid monthly or weekly has no bearing on what notice period you are meant to serve. If you don't have a contract and the matter has never been discussed with you then you are legally obliged to give only one week's notice.

Personally, if the boss made life difficult or kicked up about the lack of notice then I'd leave whenever the hell I liked even if it was after one day from handing in my notice. There's sod all he can do about it as he's not legally allowed to hold onto wages or holiday pay due to you and nor is he legally allowed to give a bad reference. He is legally obliged to pay you for whatever hours you have worked plus any holiday pay owing.

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Employme...ring/DG_175837

Depending on the company, if it has a proper HR dept and if your boss holds the purse strings what he is legally obliged to do and what he might do may be two different things.

Tell the new place it's 4 weeks, that's pretty standard.

Don't burn bridges. It's not worth it.

Long story short a mate of mine had a job, hated it, got a new job, told his boss exactly what he thought of him. Started his new job, happy as punch. 2 years later old company buys his new company out, he ends back up in old office working for his old boss about two desks over from where he last used to sit.