>>>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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>I see what you write, and I believe you. Being an employer myself, I am glad that we have different rules. What a nightmare it must be if a key emplyee suddenly leaves. I have the possibility to hire a new person and have the employee give the new person some training before he leaves. Of course when someone wants to quit, you don't want to keep him against his will. I think the important thing is that everyone here knows the rules, and adapt to them. We rarely have any disputes about these matters.

I'm sure the system works for you. As long as everybody knows the ground rules, it should work. Here, again, people know the ground rules. As I said, I could walk out today and go to another job, but as an employer, how happily would you hire someone who displays such an attitude toward his employer? Not very? Again, everybody knows the rules, and it seems to work.

But the mere idea that I could be kept here against my will by law seems too much like a feudal lord/serf relationship for me.

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>>That's exactly what I mean to say. I could hand in my notice today and leave. The normal (and decent) standard is to give a couple of weeks notice, but it's certainly not illegal not to do so.
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>>The employers are bound by certain labour laws though. They cannot terminate me without cause without giving me, I think the legal situation is, one week's pay per year worked. Most employers will give more than that though (depending on the circumstances of termination). It's usually referred to as being given a package.
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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