Can a Company Make You Resign Early When You've Given Two Weeks Notice?
When it comes to hiring and firing, many employers exercise all rights available to them and asking you to resign early before you've worked out your two weeks notice isn't necessarily out of the norm. In some cases, it can be in your best interest as well as the employer's for you to resign your job before your two weeks notice runs its course.
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Employment At-Will
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The employment at-will doctrine is a standard and widely accepted practice among private-sector employers. It means that either you or the employer has the right to end the employment relationship at any time, with or without notice, for any reason or for no reason at all. When you tender your two weeks notice, it's completely within the employer's right to end the employment relationship right then and there. Moreover, the employer doesn't need to give you a reason it chose to let you go sooner than you'd planned.
In Good Faith
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In good faith, many employers will pay out the employee's remaining two weeks, accept the employee's resignation and end the relationship on the same day when company exercises its rights under the employment at-will doctrine. You shouldn't misconstrue the employer's actions as firing you before you could quit, because you tendered the resignation before the employer let you go. There could be a number of reasons why an employer chooses this route. Nevertheless, the company has the right to do so.
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Disgruntled Employee
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In some cases, companies will ask an employee to leave before the end of two weeks when they sense an employee is disgruntled or that he may take out his personal feelings about the company or his supervisor in ways that compromise company security, data or resources. For instance, assume a salesperson tenders his resignation to work for a competing company. His current employer doesn't want to risk the possibility that the salesperson will poach its clients, therefore, it's in the best interest of the company to ask the salesperson to leave the same day he tenders his notice.
Workplace Policy
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Some companies, particularly those in the banking, investment and IT industries, have workplace policies concerning employee resignation. They agree to accept an employee's resignation and will instead pay out the employee's final workdays, in addition to providing severance pay, in exchange for the employee leaving at once. Policies like this preserve goodwill between the employer and employee, and minimize the potential that the employee will file or receive unemployment benefits.
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