• Kadath (she/her)@lemmy.worldM
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    6 months ago

    It depends on the country and on the type of contract you have.

    Where I live, for a normal contract, you need to give one month notice starting from the very last working day of the prior month. The same goes for the employer when they want to fire someone.
    There are rules where they can also have you quit the very same day they give you notice, but then (unless it was a termination for a very serious offence) they will have to pay you the garden leave in a ratio of how many months or years you have worked.

    Had a friend of mine that was fired from his job after 10 years with the same company and his garden leave was a full year of salary.

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      6 months ago

      That’s true. My experience is limited to the US and at-will employment. So, there is no kind of obligation on either the employee or employer to give any kind of notice or severance. I have EU colleagues and things like company layoffs happen very differently there compared to the US side where it can be quite sudden with no warning.