Resignation letter (was Re: [SunRescue] The Question.)

[rescue at sunhelp.org]

I see that there are much question regarding resignation and employment.  May be I can help here since the laws are on your side.

1.  Most of employmement relationships are at-will.  What this mean is that either employer or employee is free to terminate the relationship at any time without any advance obligations.
2.  The only issue arise is confidentiality and invitable disclosure.  I assume most of us working for tech company would have some sort of patent assigment or confidentiality.  Most of these however does not standup in court because of its terms and condition.  Since most company wants to protect themself to the max they end up with what legal term called UNCONSCIENABLE OR OVERREACHING OR RESTRAIN OF TRADE.   California and most state are in favor of employee when a company prevent employee from practicing its trade.
3.  Most of the time, company or employee give notice with some time as matter of courtesy rather than laws.  Dont burn your bridges as they say.  After all, many of us would like to have some sort of positive reference in the future and the last thing a company need is bad publicity.
4.  As far as resigning from the company, I would advice people to keep the resignation as brief as possible without any praise, negative etc. since these will be in your file for certain amount of year required by laws.  Guess what, your employment file can be requested under court order.  If you ever involved in legal case where your info can be used, you certainly want to have as less info of why you reside as possible.
5.  Not disclose in writting does not mean that you should take step to conceal.  If you are comfortable to tell your colleague or boss IF ASKED about your next career move by all mean tell them.  Otherwise, just tell them that you would like to keep in touch and will contact them upon settling in.

I hope the info could be some help to you all.

Good Luck
Paul
rescue at sunhelp.org wrote:
>
> Funny, the terms of employement I signed at NCGR said that either party
> was free to terminate... So how could they retain that right, but ask me
> to give them 30 days?
> 
> -Pete
> 
> 
> -----
> Peter L. Wargo
> pwargo at basenji.com
> Owner/operator of basenji.com.
> 
> On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Michael A. Turner wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 
> >   I work in a "right to work" state in the USA. I am obligated to give
> > NO notice at all. Also my employer is obligated to give me no notice when
> > firing me. It's called "at will" employment. The only stipulation is that
> > they will take your vacation pay in most cases if you do not give them two
> > weeks. That's all they can do. No employment contracts of any kind becuase
> > they are un-enforcable. It's nice having the freedom to leave, but scarry
> > that you could show up at any time and be given the boot also....
> > 
> >   Mike
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: P.A.Osborne [mailto:P.A.Osborne at ukc.ac.uk]
> > Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 12:07 PM
> > To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> > Subject: Re: Resignation letter (was Re: [SunRescue] The Question.)
> > 
> > 
> > > Dear <line manager>,
> > > 
> > > I hereby give notice of my intention to terminate my contract of
> > employment
> > > on <date>.  
> > > 
> > > Yours sincerely
> > 
> > Sounds suitably blunt.
> > 
> > > I am intrigued to see that it is illegal in some countries for a 30 day
> > > notice period to be enforced.  In the UK it is usually one calendar month
> > > but can be longer  in some cases.
> > 
> > 
> > My contract says three months...
> > 
> > Paul
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