If an employee gives a two week notice can an employer deny the notice?

Your employer does not have to accept a notice and many of them will show you the door the day that you tender your notice.

Of the companies that do this, they usually cite reasons such as preventing possible theft, though they rarely admit to that. The most common reason cited is to keep the moral of the other workers up and a person that has given notice will often bad mouth the place that they are working.

They do have to give you your paycheck and include any accrued vacation time and they are not required to pay you any other severance package and it is doubtful that you would even be eligible for unemployment since you left voluntarily (your notice). Your employer (ex-employer) must pay you within 72 hours.

This actually happened to me but that was 1972 and the information I have given is from that time period. You can call the CA Dept of Industrial Relations and inquire further, the link provided has the phone numbers of offices throughout California

http://www.dir.ca.gov/DIRNews/2006/IR2006-04.html

To hell with that! What kind of place is this anyway? Once an employee gives a notice, that's final! There's usually a time frame that is set up for termination upon hire, one week for example. Sometimes the employer may try to talk you out of quitting but when a notice is given, the employer should respect the employee's wishes to move on. Hope this helps!

California is a "at will" employment state. If you are not on an employment contract the you can be fired at any time. The only requirement the state has is they must give you final payment at that time. so pay but compensation for unused vacation. etc.

Your boss doesn't have to honor the last two weeks of your employment with them. A notice only gives them time to replace you and gives them the courtesy of knowing that you are leaving.

They have no obligation to allow you to work there when they no longer want you to. If you tell them that you intend to quit - whether it be two weeks from now or after next Christmas - they are quite free to say "No, you are let go as of right now."

Giving notice is a courtesy. You are not obliged to give it, they are not obliged to accept it.

Richard

"Protected" from what? You wanted to quit and now you have.

Many employers will not allow a terminating employee on their premesis for obvious security reasons.

cali is an at will state which means you can be FIRED for any reason or no reason at all at any time. so if you give your two weeks notice they CAN fire you right there on the spot. so yes its legal what they did

edit:being fired is being fired...you won't be getting unemployment if you get fired that's just how it goes.. Even if you can prove that you were fired unjust it wouldn't matter. It's an at will state and like I said before they can fire you for whatever reason ....

no your not a lot of employers do that unfortunately california is at will state you can quit anytime for any reason you chose to resign there is no law to protect you