Notice period

The required statutory notice is one week if the employee has been employed for one month but less than two years, two weeks for two years, three weeks for three years and so on up to 12 years. After 12 years' service the period of notice required is 12 weeks. The employee may be entitled to longer notice under the contract of employment. If a business is transferred from one person to another, the period of employment of an employee in the business at the time of the transfer counts as a period of employment with the transferee and does not break the continuity of the period of employment.