Being asked to resign?
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I hoping for a bit of advice before tomorrow afternoon as this has all happened a bit fast.
I recently left an engineering position to move to a field technical sales role which involved earning commission etc. I quickly found out it wasn't for me and started looking for another job back in engineering. I started the sales role 9th June. This morning I let my boss know I had had a job offer which I had accepted but would like to continue working until my security clearance went through and I was given a start date for my new role which will probably be about 4 weeks. He said we should be able to work something out.
At the end of today he said he had spoke to the director and I had to drive up to the office tomorrow and hand over my laptop, car, phone etc. and that would be that, end of employment essentially. This is because they don't want me visiting key accounts introducing myself as the new salesmen and then them having to explain why I have left a month or so down the line, thus loosing them credibility. I then receive an email later this evening saying I need to forward my resignation letter to my boss before I drop my things off tomorrow. Now whilst I understand their reasoning for not wanting me to visit customers I feel they are forcing me to resign when I said I was happy to work and work with them for a solution. Remember I only said I had a job offer which I had accepted. I have not sent them a resignation letter. I obviously don't want to be out of work for 4 weeks but that is looking the case. Yes in hindsight I should have kept my gob shut, however I prefer to be honest.
Now I'm not looking to create an unfair dismissal case or anything like that I just want to know what I should be entitled to and possibly how to go about the meeting tomorrow. I believe I am entitled to my weeks notice pay, having worked there longer than 1 month. I am also owed ~£1.5K of commission which they normally pay quarterly.
The employee handbook has no details on commission or notice period.
Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated. I am also planning on phoning the CAB before I go up there tomorrow as well.
Cheers.
I recently left an engineering position to move to a field technical sales role which involved earning commission etc. I quickly found out it wasn't for me and started looking for another job back in engineering. I started the sales role 9th June. This morning I let my boss know I had had a job offer which I had accepted but would like to continue working until my security clearance went through and I was given a start date for my new role which will probably be about 4 weeks. He said we should be able to work something out.
At the end of today he said he had spoke to the director and I had to drive up to the office tomorrow and hand over my laptop, car, phone etc. and that would be that, end of employment essentially. This is because they don't want me visiting key accounts introducing myself as the new salesmen and then them having to explain why I have left a month or so down the line, thus loosing them credibility. I then receive an email later this evening saying I need to forward my resignation letter to my boss before I drop my things off tomorrow. Now whilst I understand their reasoning for not wanting me to visit customers I feel they are forcing me to resign when I said I was happy to work and work with them for a solution. Remember I only said I had a job offer which I had accepted. I have not sent them a resignation letter. I obviously don't want to be out of work for 4 weeks but that is looking the case. Yes in hindsight I should have kept my gob shut, however I prefer to be honest.
Now I'm not looking to create an unfair dismissal case or anything like that I just want to know what I should be entitled to and possibly how to go about the meeting tomorrow. I believe I am entitled to my weeks notice pay, having worked there longer than 1 month. I am also owed ~£1.5K of commission which they normally pay quarterly.
The employee handbook has no details on commission or notice period.
Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated. I am also planning on phoning the CAB before I go up there tomorrow as well.
Cheers.
Had the meeting today. I had a quick word with the CAB before hand who confirmed my thoughts about the weeks pay. I just wanted to know what I was entitled to before going in there.
Everything handed over fine, it sounded like they weren't going to give me the weeks pay until I mentioned it and that was the law having spoken to the CAB. They then got a bit defensive about it and said we didn't need to involve the CAB and that they would look into it but not to hold my breath and they would also look into the commission possibly.
On the way home the HR manager rang and said the weeks pay would not be a problem and the the sales director would check to see how much commission I was due if any and depending on how much I had 'worked' on each case. A better result than I expected after immediately leaving as I felt I would probably end up with nothing. My boss said he was also happy to give me a good reference if needed. So I didn't leave on a bad note.
Everything handed over fine, it sounded like they weren't going to give me the weeks pay until I mentioned it and that was the law having spoken to the CAB. They then got a bit defensive about it and said we didn't need to involve the CAB and that they would look into it but not to hold my breath and they would also look into the commission possibly.
On the way home the HR manager rang and said the weeks pay would not be a problem and the the sales director would check to see how much commission I was due if any and depending on how much I had 'worked' on each case. A better result than I expected after immediately leaving as I felt I would probably end up with nothing. My boss said he was also happy to give me a good reference if needed. So I didn't leave on a bad note.
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