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2 weeks notice and pay

Posted on 12/13/12 at 12:36 pm
Posted by Redfin
Member since May 2011
170 posts
Posted on 12/13/12 at 12:36 pm
Does a company have to pay you for the 2 weeks after you give your two weeks notice if you don't work those days? Manager told me to go home for good after I handed him my resignation.
Posted by OnTheBrink
TN
Member since Mar 2012
5428 posts
Posted on 12/13/12 at 12:44 pm to
Sounds like he pretty much said to take your two weeks notice and shove it. If that was the case, I would think they would not have to.

Now, if you have vacation time or something like that it could be a different story.
Posted by Crbello4Hiceman
Lurking
Member since May 2011
502 posts
Posted on 12/13/12 at 12:45 pm to
Nope. At least in Louisiana, employment is "at will" for both parties. You can walk away with no notice, they can terminate you without just cause. Some companies will tell you that you don't have to stay the last 2 weeks and might pay you regardless (I 've seen public accounting firms do this) to keep a good relationship but it isn't required to pay anyone for the 2 weeks that they planned on working after they put in their notice.
Posted by Crbello4Hiceman
Lurking
Member since May 2011
502 posts
Posted on 12/13/12 at 12:46 pm to
Correct- they do have to pay you for accrued vacation etc. and any other amounts in accordance with your employment agreement (pending stipulations - you stay a certain length of time, you have good evals etc).
Posted by NaturalBeam
Member since Sep 2007
15013 posts
Posted on 12/13/12 at 12:50 pm to
No - 2 weeks notice is just a courtesy to your employer to give them time to hire a replacement - there is nothing binding about it, for either side. If they refuse your offer to keep working, then they certainly don't owe you compensation for it.
Posted by foshizzle
Washington DC metro
Member since Mar 2008
40599 posts
Posted on 12/13/12 at 1:47 pm to
quote:

2 weeks notice is just a courtesy to your employer to give them time to hire a replacement - there is nothing binding about it, for either side. If they refuse your offer to keep working, then they certainly don't owe you compensation for it.


This. Although if they tell you to buzz off immediately then you were probably better off leaving anyway. Either a) you weren't that valued an employee anyway or b) management is a bag of dicks. Maybe both.
Posted by ATL TGR
Houston
Member since Apr 2008
2878 posts
Posted on 12/13/12 at 1:48 pm to
quote:

Manager told me to go home for good


Sounds like vacation time
Posted by Im4datigers
Northern Virginia
Member since Oct 2003
4667 posts
Posted on 12/13/12 at 3:55 pm to
Depends on what line of business you're in as well. If you are in sales going to a competitor then you'll get shown the door right there. If you are backoffice going somewhere else then if they show you the door you're probably somebody they wanted to get rid of anyway.
Posted by 756
Member since Sep 2004
15932 posts
Posted on 12/13/12 at 4:16 pm to
If you resign and give two weeks notice you have set your resignation date. If the company sends you home without pay you will qualify for unemployment

If you have it all documented --

Posted by AngryBeavers
Member since Jun 2012
4554 posts
Posted on 12/13/12 at 4:46 pm to
Sounds like it is better to just up and quit then if you know you will be shown the door immediately?
Posted by jmarto1
Houma, LA/ Las Vegas, NV
Member since Mar 2008
38832 posts
Posted on 12/14/12 at 12:22 am to
quote:

No - 2 weeks notice is just a courtesy to your employer to give them time to hire a replacement - there is nothing binding about it, for either side. If they refuse your offer to keep working, then they certainly don't owe you compensation for it.


This.

quote:

This. Although if they tell you to buzz off immediately then you were probably better off leaving anyway. Either a) you weren't that valued an employee anyway or b) management is a bag of dicks. Maybe both.


Not really. I will do this so I can make my employee schedule as accurate as possible. I don't always trust employees to finish out their two weeks.
Posted by Queen
Member since Nov 2009
3043 posts
Posted on 12/14/12 at 2:53 pm to
quote:

Either a) you weren't that valued an employee anyway or b) management is a bag of dicks. Maybe both.


Or he's going to work for a competitor. I put in two weeks last year to go to a job in a different city and state that would never conflict with the job I was leaving. I finished my two weeks, they paid my time and my leftover vaca and we parted ways.

About a month after I left another guy in the department put in his two weeks and was going to work for a competing brand, same city. They told him not to finish his two weeks and he got paid his vacation time when he left.

Posted by GFunk
Denham Springs
Member since Feb 2011
14970 posts
Posted on 12/14/12 at 7:07 pm to
Could also be a sales position. Realtors, brokers, car salesman and the like aren't going to be given two weeks worth of their soon to be former employers leads to work with.

Do NOT just up and quit. Put in your resignation and if you're told to leave, file for unemployment. You'll be eligible based on a scenario where you did not commit any type of misconduct associated with your employment.
Posted by BallyHOO
Member since Oct 2005
6854 posts
Posted on 12/24/12 at 2:20 pm to
No they don't...
Posted by siliconvalleytiger
Bay Area, CA
Member since Apr 2004
31326 posts
Posted on 12/24/12 at 5:11 pm to
Sounds like they rejected your 2 week notice.
Posted by GFunk
Denham Springs
Member since Feb 2011
14970 posts
Posted on 12/25/12 at 12:46 am to
They don't what?
Posted by Draconian Sanctions
Markey's bar
Member since Oct 2008
88509 posts
Posted on 12/25/12 at 9:53 am to
This is why I don't give 2 weeks.

I mean would they give me 2 weeks notice? Probably not.
Posted by jmarto1
Houma, LA/ Las Vegas, NV
Member since Mar 2008
38832 posts
Posted on 12/25/12 at 11:47 am to
A respectable place will still consider it leaving on good terms. If they did a good job and attempt to put in a two weeks notice I will give them a good recommendation.
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