niceoneted
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Hi all,
I have a lodger living with me who is thinking of moving jobs - to a better one. She has one kinda in the pipe line but will not know for about 2 weeks. It would be due to start early September.
She currently is working in what I feel is an exploited position (she is not Irish but from EU state), thus I have been encouraging her to move.
She is wondering how much notice she should give. She has no formal contract at all, She is on minimum wage - even at night and weekends, she is not getting her statutory time off or holidays, I'm not even sure if employer is paying tax as she gets cash and no wage slip but she does have some docs from revenue in relation to it, so I suspect he may be saying he is paying her for a lot less hours. She gets paid weekly. He did tell her in the past that he would want a months notice. She is working there almost 11 months.
I feel if there is no formal contract and she is paid weekly she should just give a weeks notice. I also advised her that even if she had to forfeit the last weeks wages to move to the new job - much better pay and conditions and a known above board business -she should just go after giving the weeks notice.
It may be a case that the max notice should could give if offered the new job is somewhere in the region on 10 days - 2 weeks.
(She is young and inexperienced in the workforce especially the Irish system.)
Thanks for reading and any responses given.
I have a lodger living with me who is thinking of moving jobs - to a better one. She has one kinda in the pipe line but will not know for about 2 weeks. It would be due to start early September.
She currently is working in what I feel is an exploited position (she is not Irish but from EU state), thus I have been encouraging her to move.
She is wondering how much notice she should give. She has no formal contract at all, She is on minimum wage - even at night and weekends, she is not getting her statutory time off or holidays, I'm not even sure if employer is paying tax as she gets cash and no wage slip but she does have some docs from revenue in relation to it, so I suspect he may be saying he is paying her for a lot less hours. She gets paid weekly. He did tell her in the past that he would want a months notice. She is working there almost 11 months.
I feel if there is no formal contract and she is paid weekly she should just give a weeks notice. I also advised her that even if she had to forfeit the last weeks wages to move to the new job - much better pay and conditions and a known above board business -she should just go after giving the weeks notice.
It may be a case that the max notice should could give if offered the new job is somewhere in the region on 10 days - 2 weeks.
(She is young and inexperienced in the workforce especially the Irish system.)
Thanks for reading and any responses given.