2 Weeks Notice Question

[Horiz0n]

What is the name of your state? New Jersey

If I am at a job for a month, decide to leave and give 2 weeks notice. If they decide to not accept that and tell me to leave the company now, are they required to pay me for the 2 weeks?

 

[Beth3]

If they decide to not accept that and tell me to leave the company now, are they required to pay me for the 2 weeks? No.

P.S. The answer would be the same even if you'd worked there 20 years.

 

[Horiz0n]

The recruiter getting me the job says its the required by law for them to pay me??? I feel like they will escort me out right away and wont let me do the two weeks...

 

[pattytx]

Unless you have a valid enforceable contract (not just an employee handbook or an email or an employment agreement or somebody's word) that says you must be paid your notice period, your recruiter is wrong. In every state.

 

[cbg]

The recruiter is 100% wrong. No law in any state requires an employer to pay out notice time that is not worked, regardless of why it was not worked, unless there is a binding and enforceable contract that says otherwise.

Ask the recruiter to show you that law that says it's required. You'll find they won't be able to.

 

[Horiz0n]

This makes me nervous as this company I am at is known for walking people out after they give notice....I am not even on any projects yet so I feel this will happen to me. I guess I will call my future employer for a start date a week earlier.

 

[cbg]

You know your employer better than we do but you might want to keep in mind that walking people out does not necessarily mean that it's unpaid. EVERY company, without exception, that I have ever worked for would always, on the rare occasions that they found it necessary to ask someone not to work out their notice, pay them. My employers were by no means unique. Many, many companies will voluntarily pay for unworked notice time even though they are not required to by law.