Notice to Place Employee on Garden Leave - Form

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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: ________

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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:

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(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.

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(5). You must not have any contact or communication with any of our:

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(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 ________:

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(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.

If you have any questions or require any clarification in relation to the contents of this letter or the terms of your garden leave, please do not hesitate to contact us.

We would be grateful if you could acknowledge receipt of this letter and confirm your agreement to the terms set out above by signing and returning the enclosed copy of this letter.

Yours sincerely,

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ATTACHMENT 1

Contract of employment

ATTACHMENT 2

Draft announcement