Resignation,notice period and written offers

Resignation,notice period and written offers

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Sheepshanks

32,538 posts

118 months

Saturday 25th July 2015
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Breadvan72 said:

PS: Do you think that law is a binary code, in which there is always a yes/no answer that can be pre determined, whatever the facts? Might it perhaps be that law reflects life, and life is a bit raggedy edged and grey sometimes?
Absolutely - I often say that nothing in law is black and white.

You'd be out of a job if it was and courts would be much more efficient.

Breadvan72 said:

PPS: There are, of course, some yes/no questions. Thus it can be stated with confidence that Glen is a billion and seventy three percent wrong in the view that he expresses above as to the law of contract. Some questions are nuanced, but that one's a no brainer.
Sure - but in the real world, for all "normal" people and jobs, his answer is technically wrong but effectively correct.

anonymous-user

53 months

Saturday 25th July 2015
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It need not be. I know of a couple of ordinary dudes who were offered jobs, then biffed by the employer the shortly before they were supposed to start, having by then made plans and incurred some costs. They took advice from a bloke in a pub, and obtained modest but worthwhile payments. The bloke in the pub on that occasion was me. I generally do not encourage litigation, and spend more time telling people not to sue than the other way around, but these guys had been shafted, and the employer deserved a slap, so it got one.

anonymous-user

53 months

Saturday 25th July 2015
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I add that Glen deserved to be called out as a pillock because he did not say "in practice there is little you can do" (which would often be true). Instead he declared that there would be no contract. He expressed in ringing terms a legal conclusion that is simply bks: plain wrong and plain silly. He doesn't appear to have learned the error of his ways, but some people cannot be taught.