Trying to get into Contract Notice Period and Holiday entitlement

[acontractor]

If you have the contract in place then just make the leap.

Write your resignation letter and state that as per contract clause x. you will be resigning and giving 4 weeks notice.
However also state that you have 2 weeks holiday accrued and as a result your last working day will be notice period - 2 weeks.

simple and no need for discussions.

Thanks

[FiveTimes]

you have a few options

You can either work the 4 week notice and ask for holiday to be paid.
You can work notice - 2 week hols and start the contract.
You can speak to the line manager and ask if you can leave in 2 weeks and get your holiday paid. (highly unlikely)
speak to the agent and see if the client is prepared to wait another 2 weeks. Then you can go with my first option.

[jmo21]

If you have the contract in place then just make the leap.

Write your resignation letter and state that as per contract clause x. you will be resigning and giving 4 weeks notice.
However also state that you have 2 weeks holiday accrued and as a result your last working day will be notice period - 2 weeks.

simple and no need for discussions.

Hmm, not sure it's that simple though is it?

They may agree to pay him for the holiday to make sure they get the full benefit of the 4 week notice period.

To be honest though, I do think that this IS the most likely scenario (finishing after 2 weeks), but you will never know until it happens, or, as SueEllen says, speak to ex-employees if you can.

[NorthWestPerm2Contr]

Hmm, not sure it's that simple though is it?

They may agree to pay him for the holiday to make sure they get the full benefit of the 4 week notice period.

To be honest though, I do think that this IS the most likely scenario (finishing after 2 weeks), but you will never know until it happens, or, as SueEllen says, speak to ex-employees if you can.

Also not sure if holidays actually mean you can bring the notice period down to 2 weeks - check your contract.

I was in this exact same situation 13 months ago and I managed to make the jump. It's not easy for many reasons namely that your currently a permie (so less likely to be hired as a contractor than an experienced contractor), notice period headache, getting time off for interviews etc etc. Once you have done the jump it then becomes easier after each contract. Also the most risky time is that jump between permie to contractor and your first 6 months as a contractor.

[acontractor]

Hmm, not sure it's that simple though is it?

They may agree to pay him for the holiday to make sure they get the full benefit of the 4 week notice period.

To be honest though, I do think that this IS the most likely scenario (finishing after 2 weeks), but you will never know until it happens, or, as SueEllen says, speak to ex-employees if you can.

Unfortunately pervious employers who left went for more perm roles rather then Contract (I have spoken to one of them) and they didnt had to negociate their notice period.
I suppose If I refuse to take the holiday pay and leave force to leave after 2 weeks for any personal reasons they should not be able to impost this. esp. for a person who has no further intrest in the job.

My pervious experience with this perticuar situation is that my pevious employer ask me to stay for extra week becouse I had crucial knowlegdge transfer to do before I leave. and We agreed mutually to stay. My exboss didnt imposed me to stay at the role he rather requested. Dont know if I would have refuse then they could have imposed it leagally?

[GillsMan]

Just a thought - but do you actually have 2 weeks accrued already? Just thinking that if you have, say, 20 days holiday, a year, then 2 weeks holiday (10 working days) won't be accrued until you've worked for 6 months of the calendar year.

I realise that:

- some companies have holidays running in a fiscal rather than calendar year
- some companies allow you to carry-over a set number of days from the previous year
- 20 days holiday is the bare minimum

Just checking, like.

[acontractor]

Just a thought - but do you actually have 2 weeks accrued already? Just thinking that if you have, say, 20 days holiday, a year, then 2 weeks holiday (10 working days) won't be accrued until you've worked for 6 months of the calendar year.

I realise that:

- some companies have holidays running in a fiscal rather than calendar year
- some companies allow you to carry-over a set number of days from the previous year
- 20 days holiday is the bare minimum

Just checking, like.

Our Holiday period runs from Sept to Aug. so I have 7 months worth of holidays. but I have used few so it will leave me with 10 days

[jmo21]

My exboss didnt imposed me to stay at the role he rather requested. Dont know if I would have refuse then they could have imposed it leagally?

Well, that's a much easier question to answer - they absolutely could NOT have forced you to stay past your notice period.

He didn't impose it on you, because he simply couldn't have.

Nothing wrong with him asking you to stay an extra week either, and if it suits you, then all is good.

[acontractor]

Well, that's a much easier question to answer - they absolutely could NOT have forced you to stay past your notice period.

He didn't impose it on you, because he simply couldn't have.

Nothing wrong with him asking you to stay an extra week either, and if it suits you, then all is good.

sorry I dont think I put that right... I didnt work extra day then 4 weeks but I had 3 weeks worth of holidays left. So If I could decide then could have taken all three weeks and left with in a week.

[Support Monkey]

Like i said earlier i don't think your ready for this, you have spent the morning discussing whether you can take your holiday as notice period, you can keep discussing it untill your blue in the face if you are going contracting just go into your boss and tell him straight your off can you sort out when i can go and i want to take any holiday as part of my notice, make a decision and go and do it