Garden Leave What is it

[sandie]

I have just resigned from my Employer to go to another, I have been put on garden leave, does anyone have a clue what this means.

 

I am at a loss can anyone help

 

Thanks

[taxman]

I think you still get paid but don't have to work your notice and I'm not sure if you are allowed to get another job in the meantime.

 

I've seen it given to football managers before, basically the club doesn't want them around but still pays them so they don't go to another. Or something.

[Eater Sundae]

I take it to mean that your present employer does not want you on his premises during the period of your notice. It is usually done if the employer does not want the leaving employee to disrupt the company, or steal clients etc, so gets them out ASAP.

 

Edit: as taxman says, I'm sure that you cannot start your new job until the end of your notice period, as you are still employed by the old company.

[HeadingNorth]

Edit: as taxman says, I'm sure that you cannot start your new job until the end of your notice period, as you are still employed by the old company.

 

 

Indeed that's the key point. If your current companies simply gives you pay in lieu of notice, you are free to get another job; whereas here, in essence, they are forcing you to work out your notice but not requiring you to actually go into work - hence the slang phrase "gardening leave," since you're being paid to grow roses.

[rubydazzler]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_leave

 

Gardening leave often happens to staff in IT. Especially if they're being 'let go' or their contract isn't being renewed. Imagine the chaos they could cause. Often you're immediately escorted off the premises and your personal belongings brought to you in the car park. A bit abrupt, but being paid to sit at home for 3 months or so! yay!

[cgksheff]

So rather than ask his employer in Inverness, the OP posts on an internet forum.

 

I think you should go to work as usual on Monday and ask your HR manager!

 

To have any validity, such an arrangement would have been put in writing and would not have used the term "garden leave".

[HeadingNorth]

So rather than ask his employer in Inverness, the OP posts on an internet forum.

 

I think you should go to work as usual on Monday and ask your HR manager!

 

To have any validity, such an arrangement would have been put in writing and would not have used the term "garden leave".

 

Hardly necessary; they can just tell him to take the next four weeks off, as extra holidays.

[zepstox]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_leave

 

Gardening leave often happens to staff in IT. Especially if they're being 'let go' or their contract isn't being renewed. Imagine the chaos they could cause. Often you're immediately escorted off the premises and your personal belongings brought to you in the car park. A bit abrupt, but being paid to sit at home for 3 months or so! yay!

Ha, yes, I was in systems at Corus and was one of the last to be allowed to leave and worked the whole of my notice when the place was nearly empty. I wonder if they thought I'd cause any damage. Nobody will ever know now.

[Berberis]

You get paid and you dont have to work for it .. simples.

[Rupert_Baehr]

'Gardening Leave' is where you come round to mine and dig my garden. I provide beer.