Guides and worked examples that go with the Notice Period Calculator Written for job seekers and students in the US, UK, Canada and Australia.
Three complete letters you can copy, short, formal, and with a reason, plus a worked example that pins down your exact last working day and a handover checklist for the ten days that people actually remember you by.
Some contracts count notice in calendar days and others in working days, and the difference can move your leaving date by a week. Here is the math, the statutory floor in four countries, and what happens when your final day lands on a Sunday.
In three of these four countries the law asks almost nothing of an employee who resigns, and a fair amount of an employer who fires you. Here is what each system actually requires, side by side, and why your contract usually matters more than any of it.
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