I’ve been hearing conflicting information on this, so I thought I’d ask the SD to see if there was some sort of consensus or general custom.
When you’re submitting your two weeks’ notice, do your final two weeks start on the day you submit the notice or the next day? In other words, if you submit your notice on Monday, is your last day the second Friday? Or is it the Monday after that?
You should put the last day that you plan to show up for work in your two week notice. Keep in mind Management may dismiss you at any time prior to that date for any or even no reason.
Point taken. I should provide more background. My company pays out accrued vacation should you provide proper two weeks’ notice. I don’t think they have ever dismissed a person who had given notice, even among employees leaving under bad terms. I just don’t want them to say “Oh, we are not paying this because he gave 9 business days instead of 10.”
I want to get some dates hammered out, but I don’t want to come right out and ask my HR dept and tip my hand.
If it isn’t specified in the manual, just play it safe and give them a 15 day notice.
If there is little to no risk of getting the boot early I would simply assume the notice period should start the next day. That way if you are wrong there are no repercussions - at worst you have just given them slightly extra notice. If it bugs you, have the notice period start the next day and hand it in the preceding afternoon when you are about to leave for the day.
It’s very important to clarify your final day of service, as in resigning effective x/x/xx. One job I left saying I’m taking my accrued 2 weeks’ vacation starting Monday morning and am resigning effective Date X/X/XX, which was two weeks hence. The company said they’d just pay me a lump sum for those two weeks and I could leave. Then they denied an insurance claim for medical expenses incurred during the two weeks in question. I was able to prevail specifically because I’d specified a date.
Thanks everybody. Seems like all of you agree that erring on the side of caution is best.
An employer once told me that the 2 weeks should begin the following Monday no matter what day you give the notice. I don’t know if I agree with it, but it’s only hard information I’ve ever heard from a manager on the issue.
The legally have to pay you your accrued vacation time even if they fire you or you just walk out. It’s the same as if it were salary you had accrued and not been paid yet.