2006-12-20 20:03:26 · 5 answers · asked by monkey 3 in Business & Finance ➔ Careers & Employment
Being suspended from your job
2006-12-20 20:32:23 · answer #1 · answered by Scotty 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are several reasons that a person will be put on to garden leave.
1) They have handed in their resignation and have given their contractual notice but it has been decided that it would be detrimental to the business to have them there but the company does not want them to be able to start their new role straight away so puts them on garden leave to force them to wait.
2) Someone has been made redundant and doesn't want to work out there notice. Sometimes companies will allow them to have garden leave. Sometimes companies put people on it then to be extra spiteful and prevent them from starting their new contracts.
2006-12-20 20:12:59 · answer #2 · answered by delphi13 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ah, speaking as someone currently on gardening leave, I can explain!
My contract expires in April. However, we hae a new boss, who wants his own people in senior management positions. The only way to replace me without constructively dismissing me is to send me home, while paying me full wage, until my contract expires. This frees them to take on my replacement before my contract ends.
It's called gardening leave because most people's contracts prevent them being employed elsewhere, and therefore you're 'doing the gardening' until the contract expires.
2006-12-20 20:07:29 · answer #3 · answered by winballpizard 4 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Holidays for gardens. Mine goes to Skegness.
2006-12-20 20:07:39 · answer #4 · answered by Steve D 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
It's another term for being suspended from work
2006-12-20 20:06:01 · answer #5 · answered by k 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋