Asked to hand my notice in. Is it legal?
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DiddlyDi
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I have Parkinson's disease and have been working for 3 years for a large pastoral organisation in the UK.I really love my job and they knew at the time of recruiting me that i had parkinsons and took me on anyway. They have been really accommodating about giving me flexibilty to be able to continue in my role despite the Parkinson's progressing. Earlier this year i had a heart attack and everything started to fall apart from thereon in. I was working from home and found it really difficult to discipline myself to working time/home time and i couldn't seem to managed the juggling of all the tasks for my job (which i would add is hard enough to manage when i was feeling well let alone feeling ill. The job is clearly full time but the organisation profess not to be able to afford to employ someone full time and try to cover it with part time hours. Needless to say stresss go the better of me and i just couldn;t do the job. My boss visited me at home and asked if i would be happy to resign and because i felt that i really didnt have an option i agreed to resign and handed my notice in. The thing is i loved that job and now i feel really bereft not to mention £600 a month worse of. My question is should i have expected my employer to support me more? Given me more time to adjust etc? In the 3 years i have worked for them i have never had a written contract - is that illegal?
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Hi @DiddlyDi I'm not going to address the employer issue as it's not something I know much about but someone will hopefully see this who has that knowledge.
What I would ask is are you claiming PIP ?2024 The year of the general election...the time for change is coming 💡 -
Hi and welcome to the community
It isn't illegal to not have a written contract but it is best practice and would be frowned upon, however did you ever ask for one ? A contract can be verbal
Some companies have a blanket terms and conditions of employment and this should be available for employees in a handbook or policy
You should not have resigned but have gone through the company oh referral for assessments on recommendation for reasonable adjustments or possible medical dismissal
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@janer1967 one of the best jobs I ever had and did for over five years never had a written contract.2024 The year of the general election...the time for change is coming 💡
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Thanks for your comments. In answer yes I am getting PIP. I did ask for a contract of emp but not forthcoming. They have been very flexible and accommodating letting me work from home and vary my hours as I could manage. It's a very large organisation that you would imagine have policies for everything (think of where some people go on a Sunday morning....). I don't want to cause bad feeling but I suppose I feel a little hard done by having given them an easy way out of the situation. I should have spent some time considering options..
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If you do work and are paid for that work then you have a contract but as above this isn't relevant in this scenario, however in a large company I would expect they would
As they have been OK with you in the past it maybe just down to the person who suggested to resign did not know of any other options not that this is an excuse they could have found out
Or maybe thought the suggestion was taking away the pressure from you having to worry about work
I agree you should have given this more thought
How long is it since you left
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