After working company 35 years, i handed in my notice last

Many thanks for your patience. If you had no written contract of employment then by law you would be expected to give at least a week’s notice. You could give more than that if you wanted to and the employer could either accept it or reject it and just ask you to work the week’s notice. If they accept the longer notice period then it would be binding on both of you. So if you gave them 4 weeks’ notice and they accepted that, you will be entitled to that notice period and should either be allowed to work it, or if placed on garden leave – be paid for it.

So as a starting point you would be entitled to receive pay for the period 17 June to 15 July. If you had outstanding holidays, it is impossible for the employer to ask you to take these as part of the notice period, so in effect you get paid for the holidays rather than the notice period – that is legal. However, to do so the employer must give you a minimum notice period which is twice as long as the holiday they want you to take. So if they wanted you to take 11 days’ holiday as part of your notice period, they must have told you of this at least 22 days before the leave was due to be taken. They have not complied with that notice period here so they cannot ask you to take the full 11 days holidays now. They can ask you to take a shorter period as long as the notice requirements are satisfied so ensure this happens if they try that.

This is your basic legal position. I have more detailed advice for you in terms of the rights you have should they fail to pay you what you are due, which I wish to discuss so please take a second to leave a positive rating for the service so far (by selecting 3, 4 or 5 stars) and I can continue with that and answer any further questions you may have. Don’t worry, there is no extra cost and leaving a rating will not close the question and we can continue this discussion. Thank you

Glad to hear it and all the best