>>>>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.
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>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.
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>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.

This is no real problem here. If a worker feels that he does not belong there, this usually gets known by the management, and they take the necessary actions. If someone really wants to leave in a hurry, most companies with let the worker quit as soon as a replacement is hired and his duties are carried out by someone else. Nobody wants a bad working environment, and most people are very flexible.


>>>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.


>>>>>>>>>I would apprciate suggeastions of a Check List type document
>>>>>>>>>Regards,
>>>>>>>>>Gerard