When I retired from the RAF, I signed up to a contract that required two months notice if I wanted to leave. I didn't know any better - people at my level do not give two months notice, only one. When the time came, the company tried to hold me to it. I went for loads of job interviews and I could tell they wanted me but when I said I had to give two month's notice, no-one was interested. A job agency I was signed up with said that I had to bite the bullet and give just one month's notice, which I did. My line manager put in a word for me and they eventually said that, provided a replacement was in place, they wouldn't even hold me to the one month.sumdumbloke wrote:You may have other reasons for not wanting to do it this way, but notice periods are almost impossible to enforce other than if agreed to in very specific contractual terms. If it came to an attempt to legally hold you to a general notice term, in circumstances such as you've described. they would almost certainly fail.
Offering to give up two month's salary in lieu would, I think, be the best option, although, assuming that the new job want you in one month, then negotiate for one month, which gives them time to find someone and you time to make any handover notes you feel appropriate.
