Recently handed in my resignation letter?

Question

I have been in a full time office job for the last 6 months, and have just handed in my resignation letter, thereby giving my employer 4 weeks notice of my attention to leave my post. This notice of leave will take me towards end of October.

However, I am now having 2nd thoughts and am considering withdrawing my resignation letter. Do you know of any 'standard laws' where employees are allowed to take back their resignation letter or does each employer handle this type of situation differently?

Answer 1

I doubtthere are any laws. Just go in and ask. They will either accept or they won't. Would not be a very good carreer move to go in citing laws and demanding that they let you stay.

Answer 2

Under U.K employment law you have officially handed in your resignation therefore terminating your employment as per your contractual right. Therefore, as you have done this you have confirmed that you wish for your employment to be terminated. Unfortunately, this is a mutually agreed change to your employment contract (in the same way if you and your employer agreed a change to say, your notice period). Basically, your employer does not have to accept your change of heart.

However, if your role has not yet been recruited for however this puts you in a stronger position, speak to your manager, confirm you have had second thoughts and ask your employer whether they would accept a withdrawal of your resignation (have a letter with you ready to show you are serious is my advice stating that you would be grateful if they would accept your withdrawal and state your reasons). The question is though, if they have recruited your replacement they will no doubt say no 'tough luck' as they cannot withdraw an offer of employment. From your employers perspective, they will also want to know what has changed - be ready to respond to this with good reasons as they may think that if they take you back as far as they are concerned you may resign again in a month etc!

Good luck and before you speak to your manager think why you resigned in the first place - have the reasons really changed or are you just scared now the realisation has kicked in? If it is still early days and you are a valued employee speaking from experience, an employer will be sympathetic if they can be. Just be honest.

Hope it goes well.

Answer 3

Withdrawing Resignation

Answer 4

you can take your lead from the way that your resignation was received. Did they act surprised? Did they ask you to stay?
If the answer to either of these is no...then they probably will not accept you recinding the resignation.
In fact...many employers will actually give you the pay for the time during the resignation and ask you to leave immediately. This is done because once you have made up your mind to leave, you can be a distraction to the other employees, or there may be a possibility of sabotage.

So---do not be surprised if you attempt to recind your resignation and they say "no thanks".

good luck :)

Answer 5

Request a copy of your Personnel File. They HAVE to give that to you, but it may cost you a few dollar for copying costs. Have the copies MAILED; do NOT pick them up or otherwise have them personally delivered. The copies should also be dated as to the date they were copied, but just in case be SURe to keep the envelope or packaging they were delivered -- it has a postmark! The letter should be in there, along with your letter of resignation. ALL "official" communications between you and the company are required to be in your personnel file. Any thing not int eh file is not considered "official". if the letter you need is not in there, then it was written out of spite, and they canNOT reference it in any other communications, like a "personal reference" from another company. If the letter does not appear, you need to just ignore the whole thing and get on with your life. IF this letter should somehow surface in the future, YOU have dated copies of your personnel file, and the letter was not included at that time. You can produce this as evidence to raise the question about possible illegal business practices at that time.

Answer 6

There are no laws allowing you to withdraw your resignation. But if you're a good employee and they haven't found a replacement yet, they might let you change your mind - talk to them as soon as possible and ask.

Answer 7

You are protected in law if you withdraw the notice immediately. eg within hours or the following day.(or possibly more but certainly less than a week)

If you are in good time still and the employer refuses to allow the withdraw of notice you can make a claim for unfair dismissal.


Otherwise the employer has to agree to the withdraw

Answer 8

If I were an employer and you handed in your resignation and then asked to cancel I would not, the thought would be there
in my mind that you are going to change your job and I would not be able to rely on you.

Answer 9

if your present employer hasn't made the effort to convince you to change your mind, then a 'withdrawn' letter of resignation will not be accepted. you are out. there is no law or custom regarding a resignation renege. and since the paper trail is unassailable, recourse does not exist.

Answer 10

If you've resigned, your employer can take you up on it. If you've now decided you'd rather not go, you'd better try sounding out your employer on how glad he'll be to see the back of you. If he'd prefer you to stay, he'll give you back your resignation letter.

Answer 11

Recruiting new staff is expensive and time consuming, it can take 3 months to get a replacement in.
If you got on well with your boss and did a reasonable job, the chances are that they will take you back, although this could be at less money.
Call your boss and talk to him/her.

Do not go in spouting any legislation or regulations as this will ensure you get a negative response.