Notice period

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My notice period in my employment contract states 6 weeks but I have been reading about the statutory minimum. I have been with my company 11 years. Will I need to give my contract notice or statutory? Thank you.

You need to give contractual notice.

Statutory notice applies if they are dismissing you or making you redundant. But for you to leave them if your contract says 6 weeks then that is what you go with.

@MajorCarolDanvers thank you that is the best news!

You wouldn't happen to know - My employment contract is unsigned - it has an old job title and salary - but I have a copy emailed to me from the CEO. Will this still be valid with regards to the notice period? Thank you.

OP you have posted twice, I would ask for this thread to be deleted.

@Crazylazydayz I will request this is deleted. Thank you.

Whether or not a contract is signed is largely irrelevant. If it was sent to you by the company (by email is fine, in fact totally standard, most places don't bother printing them off any more) and you started working and didn't dispute it in any way, you are pretty much always taken to have agreed that as your contract. Of course if they later sent you a different contract or amendment letter with a different notice period, and again you didn't dispute it or do anything about it, that would be taken as an accepted amendment to contract and you couldn't simply rely on the earlier document.

That being said notice periods (on the employee's side anyway) are a virtually unenforceable contractual term so 99% of the time if you want to leave in 6 weeks, leave in 6 weeks and it will be fine even if somewhere there's a document saying it should be 7... (just wait until they've done your reference for new job first though!).