legal advice needed about retracting a job resignation

[veronika]

My friend has a good job in local government but has been under a lot of work stress.

A month ago in a particularly bad patch she gave a letter of resignation.

She had not thought things through and now regrets this.

How do you go about retracting a resignation?
Can you do such a thing?

She is in Scotland if that matters

In England you may be able to retract if clearly the resignation was a moment of impulse and you retract quickly, but not after a month. She needs to talk to her employer to see if her employer is willing to let her stay on, but I doubt that she can enforce her contractual rights after having given notice a month earlier.

LM thank you for this.
I will pass the info on

Agree with LadyMuck. If she had a row and stormed out having resigned in the heat of the moment then in the next day or so regretted it, she could retract it.

If she resigned in writing and a month later has changed her mind, she is completely at the mercy of her employer as to whether they will allow her to retract it.