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I've just quit my job, I had a 3 month notice period but the company asked if I could leave after 1 month. My new company is happy tp take me early but I really wanted a 3 month paid holiday.

I'm assuming (since I'm not a football manager) that this means they only want to pay me until my contract terminates in 1 month. However they did not say this, they just said there's no way the company want me on gardening leave for 3 months.

I've agreed to leave early & they want me to update my resignation letter, do i just simply update with a new date, or chuck in a statement saying that the company wanted to do this, not me since I'm leaving on their terms these should at least pay me 6 weeks (half)? Or am I just fighting a losing battle?
 
Your resignation letter stays exactly the same. No business of your current employer what you do when you leave them.

Though if you stick firm on the 3 months they may ask you to work all of it, in which case you have to ask whether you'd rather get out after 1.
 
You put 3 months notice in as per your contract. A contract is agreed and signed by both parties so they need to pay you for the full notice period imo.

This. If they don’t pay you for 3 months it’s breach of contract and a fairly easy - albeit potentially lengthy - process to get them to pay it via, if necessary, an employment tribunal, with costs.

But I’d recommend the op simply asks the question. They may simply have assumed he was anxious to start a new job. I’ve personally requested a shorter notice period for exactly those reasons.
 
Your resignation letter stays exactly the same. No business of your current employer what you do when you leave them.

Though if you stick firm on the 3 months they may ask you to work all of it, in which case you have to ask whether you'd rather get out after 1.
That's the thing, they told me if I leave it as 3 months they'd find me something to do.
 
That's the thing, they told me if I leave it as 3 months they'd find me something to do.

That’s fair enough. The contract works both ways. If you want then to pay you for three months, you should expect to work for three months

(I’m beginning to suspect you’re employed in food manufacturing and you want to have some cake off your employer and eat it too)
 
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I've just quit my job, I had a 3 month notice period but the company asked if I could leave after 1 month. My new company is happy tp take me early but I really wanted a 3 month paid holiday.

I'm assuming (since I'm not a football manager) that this means they only want to pay me until my contract terminates in 1 month. However they did not say this, they just said there's no way the company want me on gardening leave for 3 months.

I've agreed to leave early & they want me to update my resignation letter, do i just simply update with a new date, or chuck in a statement saying that the company wanted to do this, not me since I'm leaving on their terms these should at least pay me 6 weeks (half)? Or am I just fighting a losing battle?
Why would you not be at work in your 3 months notice period ?
That's the thing, they told me if I leave it as 3 months they'd find me something to do.
Like they should ,you still work there
 
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Either work it or leave, why should they be paying you to do nowt. You sound like a nightmare employee, lazy, work shy and entitled, if the new company get wind they might pie you off
 
Meet them in the middle and say you'll leave after 1 if they pay you for 2. Depends on what you so but some companies won't want you there to fuck anything up on purpose, but they can legally make you work it on another section
Either work it or leave, why should they be paying you to do nowt. You sound like a nightmare employee, lazy, work shy and entitled, if the new company get wind they might pie you off
Bit harsh 😂 nailed on you work in management mate 😂
 
Either work it or leave, why should they be paying you to do nowt. You sound like a nightmare employee, lazy, work shy and entitled, if the new company get wind they might pie you off

Had me fooled that this was a genuine employment law related question for a minute, rather than a ‘how can I screw some money out of a company for nothing’ enquiry.
 
Had me fooled that this was a genuine employment law related question for a minute, rather than a ‘how can I screw some money out of a company for nothing’ enquiry.
If the company was in a field where people working notice immediately turns into a conflict of interest they wouldn't have 3 month notice periods
You hand your notice in and work it . If you have 5 days holiday owed ,you leave 5 days earlier
 

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