How should a Catholic resign from work?

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casslean said:
It’s always good if you have those options, but for many people and positions, it simply isn’t an option. They can’t start earlier than anticipated and can’t afford to take vacation time (I know I’ve often had to rely on accrued vacation pays to get me through a lag in pay periods when I change jobs). That’s why we have legislated against the practice.

I think if you are going to have that sort of practice in your company, it should be clearly communicated to employees on day one so that they can adjust themselves accordingly.
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You make a good point. I’ve always been encouraged to stay the full notice period and make sure things are ready for my replacement, so it’s never been an issue for me. Doesn’t mean it wouldn’t be an issue for others. I agree that it should be communicated clearly to employees in the company’s personnel policy. And I’m certainly glad we have legislation to protect us!
 
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How would they go about levying a fine equivalent to almost 3mths pay at the end of your employment there? I’m assuming that the only vehicle they would have is to withhold your pay…?
 
I would presume you communicate on hiring that you don’t need notice?
 
Nelka said:
I was offered a new job and have accepted it I now need to hand in my notice from my current job.

😃

Initially I wanted to send in a scathing attack as they have been nasty to me but thought as a Catholic I should write a lovely one instead but that wouldn’t really be true. I guess a basic and short letter would be best but should I put anything into it really?

Thanks.
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That’s called a CLM.

Just write a boilerplate letter.

Serve your notice. Thank them for the opportunity for having worked with them (and it WAS an opportunity that helped your survival). Wish them the best. Close. Sign.

That’s it. You don’t need to write anything flowery or anything you don’t mean. You don’t need to write a “lovely” one. You do need to write a professional one.

Snark has no place in any professional environment, regardless of how you feel.
 
It’s fair. Even if I terminate someone, depending on the cause, they usually get a severance check equal to two weeks pay. I had a guy steal from me and then lie to my face about it. He didn’t get the severance. He was lucky not to have been charged legally
 
The company only pays using bank account information. That information can also be used to make the charge.
 
Yeah that makes a huge difference. Some employers will literally fire them on the spot and have them escorted out.
 
Aha. That partly explains it. I’d still wonder about the legality of fining employees.

It seems unjust, regardless, since it seems that that portion of your employment contract was not adequately communicated (since you had to go searching for it after you were hired on). I’m not a lawyer (maybe one on here can enlighten me…?), but isn’t one of the requirements for a law that it be properly promulgated? A penalty of 3 months pay seems like a significant detail that, in my amateur opinion, should be spelled out as clearly as the salary offered. To me, simply sneaking something like that into “company policies” seems as misleading as sneaking in a clause allowing them to arbitrarily reduce your salary. (Not something wrong per se, but wrong if not made clear on hiring) For something of that significance, “company policies” seems to me like an insufficient level of promulgation.
Anyway, I don’t actually know much about employment laws, so feel free to enlighten me.
 
Socrates92 said:
I’d still wonder about the legality of fining employees.
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It’s a “liquidation damage” charge, which is legal in my state and probably every state that the company operates in.
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It seems unjust, regardless, since it seems that that portion of your employment contract was not adequately communicated
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It might have been. It wasn’t in the offer letter, but they may have sent the policies along with the offer. Unfortunately, that seems to be the one email missing from my inbox. (I still have a copy of the signed offer letter I sent them, but not the email with the original file.) That said, I’m guessing my deleting it was because everything meaningful was in another email, and I don’t have the policies in any email.

Anyways, the reason I went looking for it recently is that I’ve been searching for another job and wanted to make sure that 2 weeks would work. That’s when I found the 4 weeks (had forgotten), and I went digging around company policies to see if there was any penalty for giving it sooner just in case I have to give one sooner.
 
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