2-week notice is considered a "professional courtesy" in USA, and it is not mandated by law. Obviously, contract jobs may have different conditions, but anything harsher than 2 weeks could be contested in court, and for ordinary jobs would be routinely invalidated.

>It's not as awful as it may sound. If you have worked a place for less than a year, you must inform your employer one month before you stop working for him, and the other way around. From one to five years it's two months, after five years it's three months.
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>Do you mean to say that in Canada a worker can just quit his job and go straight to another job the same day? I hardly think so.
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>>That sounds awful. For an enlightened society, that sounds very feudal. Here we only have issues like that if there is an employment contract involved, and then it's just normal contract law that comes into play.
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>>>If you leave without fulfilling the period after you give your employer your resignation, the employer can, and usually will, sue the employer for damages. These damages can be substantial, usually many times the salary for the period. And he is strictly forbidden to start in a new job, if this happens the police can be called to stop him. But I must say that this very rarely happens in real life, usually the employee makes some agreement with his employer.
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>>>>Really? What crime are you charged with when you quit a job?
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>>>>>I don't know how the laws are in Ireland, but here an employee must remain at work for a period relative to the time he has been employed. It's illegal for him to leave before this period ends, unless he gets a mutual agreement with his boss to leave earlier.
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>>>>>>Hi.
>>>>>>One of our clients suspects that his IT person is about to leave and is concerned that
>>>>>> he will be left vulnerable.
>>>>>>The IT guy lookas after all Hardware, Email, Remote Comms etc.
>>>>>>The Client wants a check list / Question and answer sheet as to the
>>>>>> key bits of info that should be available, so that he can get
>>>>>> this form IT guy before he leaves.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>I would apprciate suggeastions of a Check List type document
>>>>>>Regards,
>>>>>>Gerard