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David Robinson
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My company is in financial difficulties and I need to Lay 1 employee off temporarily and one permanently.
How much notice must I give?
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Adrian Waltho
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David,
The following is taken from the ACAS guide to employment contracts:
"What is the notice entitlement?
There is a legal minimum amount of notice required to terminate a contract of employment when an employee has been continuously employed for a month or more.
After one month's employment employers must give one week's notice to employees. This notice increases to two weeks after two years service and then by a further week for each year served up to a maximum of 12 weeks to employees with 12 or more years service.
After one month's service, employees must give one week's notice of leaving employment. This requirement does not increase with additional service.
If employees have a contract of employment that specifies a greater amount of notice, the higher amount applies."
I hope this information helps.
We also suggest you look at the ACAS guide on lay-offs (short term redundancies) here:
http://www.acas.org.uk/publications/al01.html
Kind regards,
Workplace Law Network
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Stephen Turner
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Should be as per the contract with the employee. If the contract doesn't mention the notice period I think there is a statutory minimum which is the same as the redundancy period. If they haven't been working for a whole year then I think there is no staturtory notice period.
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