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Dear ________,
GARDEN LEAVE
On ________ you were issued with a notice to terminate your contract of employment by reason of ________.
In accordance with your notice period, your last day of employment will be on ________.
Notice of Garden Leave
We write to provide you with written notice that we intend to exercise our right to place you on garden leave. You may already be aware that garden leave refers to the situation where an employer sends an employee home on full pay during their notice period. During garden leave, an employee will remain employed by their employer. We are placing you on garden leave in accordance with the terms of your contract of employment. The relevant clauses are: ________
We have attached a copy of your contract of employment with those terms highlighted for your ease of reference. We summarise below the relevant details of your garden leave.
Key Information
With effect from ________ until further notice, you will not be required to attend your place of work: ________. This period shall be referred to hereafter as the period of 'Garden Leave'. During the period of Garden Leave, in accordance with the relevant provisions:
(1). As well as not attending your place of work, you also must not attend the following locations:
________
(2). You will continue to receive the rate of pay you would be entitled were you not on Garden Leave.
(3). You will not be entitled to receive any bonuses or commission. We have agreed that you will receive an ex-gratia payment of £________ in place of any bonuses or commission during the period of Garden Leave.
(4). You will only be required to carry out work at our specific request. We will be under no obligation to provide any work for you to do. Any handover work allocated to you must be undertaken in an appropriate and timely manner.
(5). You must not have any contact or communication with any of our:
________
(6). You will remain an employee as per your contract of employment and will be bound by your duty of fidelity (the duty of good faith which is applicable to you as an employee).
(7). You should remain in contact with us each working day, unless you have booked annual leave. You can make a request to book annual leave in accordance with the usual procedures.
(8). If you do not take all of your accrued, unused annual leave, you will be deemed to have taken this. You will not be entitled to payment in lieu of holiday entitlement upon the termination of your employment with us.
(9). You must return the following items to us on or before ________:
________
(10). You will be free to seek new work during your period of Garden Leave but may not commence employment or any other remunerative activity without our express permission.
Please refer to your attached contract of employment for full details of the terms and conditions relevant to your garden leave.
We will need to make the appropriate announcements in due course in respect of your Garden Leave and the scheduled termination of your employment.
Please find attached to this letter a draft announcement which we intend to circulate at 9am on ________. We would be grateful if you could please signify your approval of this as soon as possible and in any event in advance of this time and date.
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Yours sincerely,
________
(________)
ATTACHMENT 1
Contract of employment
ATTACHMENT 2
Draft announcement
________ ________
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________
________
Dear ________,
GARDEN LEAVE
On ________ you were issued with a notice to terminate your contract of employment by reason of ________.
In accordance with your notice period, your last day of employment will be on ________.
Notice of Garden Leave
We write to provide you with written notice that we intend to exercise our right to place you on garden leave. You may already be aware that garden leave refers to the situation where an employer sends an employee home on full pay during their notice period. During garden leave, an employee will remain employed by their employer. We are placing you on garden leave in accordance with the terms of your contract of employment. The relevant clauses are: ________
We have attached a copy of your contract of employment with those terms highlighted for your ease of reference. We summarise below the relevant details of your garden leave.
Key Information
With effect from ________ until further notice, you will not be required to attend your place of work: ________. This period shall be referred to hereafter as the period of 'Garden Leave'. During the period of Garden Leave, in accordance with the relevant provisions:
(1). As well as not attending your place of work, you also must not attend the following locations:
________
(2). You will continue to receive the rate of pay you would be entitled were you not on Garden Leave.
(3). You will not be entitled to receive any bonuses or commission. We have agreed that you will receive an ex-gratia payment of £________ in place of any bonuses or commission during the period of Garden Leave.
(4). You will only be required to carry out work at our specific request. We will be under no obligation to provide any work for you to do. Any handover work allocated to you must be undertaken in an appropriate and timely manner.
(5). You must not have any contact or communication with any of our:
________
(6). You will remain an employee as per your contract of employment and will be bound by your duty of fidelity (the duty of good faith which is applicable to you as an employee).
(7). You should remain in contact with us each working day, unless you have booked annual leave. You can make a request to book annual leave in accordance with the usual procedures.
(8). If you do not take all of your accrued, unused annual leave, you will be deemed to have taken this. You will not be entitled to payment in lieu of holiday entitlement upon the termination of your employment with us.
(9). You must return the following items to us on or before ________:
________
(10). You will be free to seek new work during your period of Garden Leave but may not commence employment or any other remunerative activity without our express permission.
Please refer to your attached contract of employment for full details of the terms and conditions relevant to your garden leave.
We will need to make the appropriate announcements in due course in respect of your Garden Leave and the scheduled termination of your employment.
Please find attached to this letter a draft announcement which we intend to circulate at 9am on ________. We would be grateful if you could please signify your approval of this as soon as possible and in any event in advance of this time and date.
825 852585 2522 8552 2552 225 8252 8825 58 22228288282 82 25525 22 228552 2552 2255 82528255 88 552525 2825 82 5 282282 525 2552582 2585822.
52 225 5582 522 852828228, 282582 52 222 52882522 22 8222582 58.
Yours sincerely,
________
(________)
ATTACHMENT 1
Contract of employment
ATTACHMENT 2
Draft announcement
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