Module 3 · Chapter 7

Notice, Garden Leave and Payment in Lieu of Notice

A senior job can end in several ways. The contract sets the warning each side gives, when the employer may keep its seller away from customers, and when it may pay her to go.

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In this chapter

  • How much notice each side must give, and why it is six months
  • How garden leave keeps a departing seller away from customers
  • How a payment in lieu ends the job at once and keeps the restrictions alive

7.1Ending the job in one paragraph

The Contract gives four ways for Esme’s job to end. Either side may give notice: one week during probation, six months after it. Cressby may also dismiss her at once for gross misconduct, or end the job at once and pay her salary for the notice instead.

During any notice, Cressby may keep her away from work and customers. Keeping her away and paying her to go are rights Cressby has only because the Contract creates them.

Key point

How the job ends decides whether the restrictions survive. Cressby keeps them only if it ends the job in a way the Contract allows.

Also in this chapter

  1. How much notice each side gives
  2. Dismissal at once for gross misconduct
  3. Garden leave: keeping her away while her contacts go cold
  4. Payment in lieu: ending the job at once without a breach
  5. The four ways the Contract ends
  6. Your job

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