If I give the required 4 weeks notice (company policy) and they let me go then, do they have to pay me for the time I would have worked?
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If I give the required 4 weeks notice (company policy) and they let me go then, do they have to pay me for the time I would have worked?
Asked on August 11, 2015 under Employment Labor Law, New York
Answers:
SJZ, Member, New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 8 years ago | Contributor
Unless you had a written employment contract limiting the reasons for which you could be terminated--and, if so, the circumstances that woud allow your termination did not occur or do not exist--then they may let you go immediately and do not owe you pay for the time you "would have worked." That is because without an employment contract, you are "employee at will" and as such, may be terminated at any time, for any reason, without notice. The company policy of four weeks notice is just "tradition" at your company--it does not bind them.
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