If you give your two weeks notice, but your employer decides that the day you give the notice will be your last day, are you entitled to payment for those two weeks?
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If your employer can let you go at the drop of a hat and not have significant issues or downtime, doesn't that say something about the role you fill?
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If your employer can let you go at the drop of a hat and not have significant issues or downtime, doesn't that say something about the role you fill?
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If you're resigning and try to give two weeks, that usually means that you've worked something out with your new employer including allocating appropriate time for giving notice.
If your current employer wants to be a cheap ass and try to get out of paying you for the courtesy, then I would make their actions known in terms of dinging their reputation.
quote:This is my experience as well. Customer contacts, client lists, etc are all extremely proprietary and once you give the news, you better have your stuff packed. I expected this to happen when I left my last company and I told the new group that I would likely be joining them that afternoon. Had my stuff in a box and drove to the new job from the old office.
^ industry specific. Depending on the information you handle and the new job you're going to, some employers don't want you hanging around. At least that's how it's been at my O&G company when anyone from a tech up to a manager gave two weeks. They were escorted out and told their belongings would be mailed to them. No idea how compensation is handled.
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If your employer can let you go at the drop of a hat and not have significant issues or downtime, doesn't that say something about the role you fill?
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What you can do is file for unemployment for those two weeks.
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The amount of notice can be important in a TWC case. The rule followed by the Commission recognizes that two weeks' notice is standard in most industries. If the employee gives notice of intent to resign by a definite date two weeks or less in the future and you accept the notice early at your convenience, it will be regarded as a resignation, not a discharge.
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If your employer can let you go at the drop of a hat and not have significant issues or downtime, doesn't that say something about the role you fill?
I've only changed jobs once, and it was amicable, but the two weeks was spent getting my coworkers up to speed on the projects I was working on.
Coming from someone who survived the '09s and had to deal with a bunch of "new" projects w/o anybody with any working knowledge of those projects, it really sucks to takeover something in progress and not have a damn clue what's been going on related to those projects.
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If they released me early and did not pay me for the 2 weeks notice then it technically counts as a termination, and if they did not have cause (previous written warnings, documentation, etc) for the termination, then I could sue them for discrimination. For reference, I am a hispanic male.
quote:You received poor advice from a stupid HR person.
I actually just went through this recently. I worked for a small oil and gas company in Houston. I confirmed everything with HR before resigning. My HR rep told me that if I gave my two weeks notice and the company decided to release me that same day or earlier than expected. If they released me early and did not pay me for the 2 weeks notice then it technically counts as a termination, and if they did not have cause (previous written warnings, documentation, etc) for the termination, then I could sue them for discrimination. For reference, I am a hispanic male.
That was straight from HR's mouth. I
quote:I'm sorry I threw out the EEOC - there's nothing in either EEOC or FLSA regs about requiring a two-weeks notice. I don't know where my head was last night.
Ark03, I think you are right. This would be covered under the EEOC, not TWC. Im not an HR expert, Im just relaying what my HR rep told me.
quote:This is so true. I knew about one of my previous companies immediately showing you to the door upon turning in two weeks notice. I spent all that time typing up a sincere and professional resignation letter - if I had wanted to jack things up, I would have already done it before resigning.quote:
Many companies have policies to decline the two weeks notice regardless of how dumb that would be. Protip for employers: if someone capable of stealing your information wants to do so, he already did it.