Basic Rules:

  • Employees and employers must give each other notice of their intention to end the employment
  • An employer may end the employment of an employee by giving them:     
    • termination notice,
    • termination pay, or
    • a combination of termination notice and termination pay


When an Employee quits, notice period rules are applicable as mentioned in the agreement.


Employers who end their employee’s employment must give the employee, and ensure they receive, written termination notice.

An employer must give written notice to their employee of at least: (Length of employment v/s Notice Period) as follows:


3-12 mths of employment = 1 week;
1-3 years of employment = 2 weeks;
3+ years of employment = 3 weeks, plus 1 week’s pay for each additional year of employment to a maximum of 8 weeks.


Note:

A week’s pay is calculated by:
Totaling the employee’s wages, excluding overtime, earned in the last eight weeks in which the employee worked normal or average hours; and Dividing the total by eight.